Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 28
On this day, however, the man went after his wives, and arrived at his father-in-law’s place as the sun was setting.
Who acts: man, sun · What happens: go, arrive, set · To what, where: place
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 (man, sun), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 wives | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wives | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 arrived | cc |
| 15 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 in | punct |
| 22 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 law | case |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrived | obl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 setting | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun | det |
| 27 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 setting | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 setting | aux |
| 29 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 arrived | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the man | after man's wives; day | however property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | the man not said here | man's place father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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