Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 25
His mother clothed that girl also in the same manner as she had dressed the elder one.
Who acts: mother, girl · What happens: clothe, dress · To what, where: elder one
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clothed | nsubj |
| 3 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 girl | mark |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clothed | advcl |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 clothed | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 manner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 manner | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 manner | amod |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clothed | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 dressed | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dressed | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dressed | aux |
| 14 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 clothed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 16 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dressed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clothe | past | His mother | in the same manner; girl advcl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in manner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dress | past · perfect | girl | the elder one | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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