Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 12
After a little time the inkalimeva came to the kraal, bringing some honey with it.
Who acts: inkalimeva · What happens: come, bring · To what, where: kraal, honey
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inkalimeva), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inkalimeva | det |
| 6 | inkalimeva | inkalimeva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 kraal | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kraal | det |
| 10 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bringing | punct |
| 12 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 honey | det |
| 14 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bringing | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bringing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the inkalimeva | the kraal | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kraal=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bring | gerund | the inkalimeva not said here | some honey | with kraal | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent honey=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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