Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 19
She gathered some wood, and kindled a fire for the purpose of roasting the liver.
Who acts: woman, purpose · What happens: gather, kindle, roast · To what, where: wood, fire, liver
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Glutton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, purpose), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 wood | det |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kindled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kindled | cc |
| 7 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kindled | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 purpose | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 purpose | det |
| 12 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kindled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 roasting | mark |
| 14 | roasting | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 purpose | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 liver | det |
| 16 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roasting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | woman | some wood | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kindle | past | woman not said here | a fire | for the purpose | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for purpose=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | roast | gerund | the purpose not said here | the liver | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent liver=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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