Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 37
He broke it in two and gave half to his mother.
Who acts: Kenkebe · What happens: break, give · To what, where: same, two, half, mother
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kenkebe), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 two | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 broke | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | conj |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Kenkebe | same | two | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | past | Kenkebe not said here | half | Kenkebe's mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to mother=Recipient |
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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