Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 50
Some time in 1875, a party of Kaffir girls went to bathe in a little stream not far from the place where I was then living.
Who acts: party, I · What happens: go, bathe, live
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party, I), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1875 | case |
| 4 | 1875 | 1875 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 party | det |
| 7 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 girls | case |
| 9 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 girls | compound |
| 10 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 party | nmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bathe | mark |
| 13 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 stream | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stream | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stream | amod |
| 17 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bathe | obl |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 far | advmod |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 bathe | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 far | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 living | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 living | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 living | aux |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 living | advmod |
| 27 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 place | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a party of Kaffir girls | time | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bathe | to-infinitive | a party of Kaffir girls not said here | in a little stream; far property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stream=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past · progressive | I | then | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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