Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 30
While he was eating, the people of the village piled up bundles of grass, and the bridegroom was burned in the house.
Who acts: bridegroom, village · What happens: eat, pile up, burn · To what, where: people, bridegroom, house
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 (bridegroom, village), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 eating | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eating | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 people | nmod |
| 11 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bundles | amod |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 piled | compound:prt |
| 13 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 village | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 grass | case |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bundles | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 burned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 burned | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bridegroom | det |
| 19 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 burned | aux:pass |
| 21 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 village | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | bridegroom | the people of the village | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pile up | participle | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | burn | past · passive | the village not said here | the bridegroom | the house | tree rules |
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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