Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 26
Round it the inmates sleep, while the back of the hut, or the side opposite the entrance, is used as a store room.
Who acts: h · What happens: sleep, use · To what, where: back
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (h), 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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 5 sleep | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 inmates | det |
| 4 | inmates | inmate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sleep | nsubj |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleep | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 back | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 back | det |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hut | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 back | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 side | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 side | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hut | appos |
| 17 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 19 entrance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 entrance | det |
| 19 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 back | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 25 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 room | compound |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | h | the inmates nsubj | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | the back of the hut | as a store room | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as room=Attribute |
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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