Kaffir folk-lore, Another Story of Kenkebe., sentence 8
When they reached home, his wife said: “Take those eyes, you silly one, to their owner, and bring back your own.”
Who acts: eyes, wife, you · What happens: reach, say, take, one, bring back · To what, where: eyes, own · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Another 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 (eyes, wife, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 11 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 eyes | det |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Take | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 one | nsubj |
| 16 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Take | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 owner | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 owner | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 owner | nmod:poss |
| 21 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Take | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bring | cc |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Take | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 bring | advmod |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 own | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bring | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | eyes = eye | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kenkebe's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | that eyes | eyes's owner parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | one in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | bring back in a quote | infinitive | your own | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent own=Theme |
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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