Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 51
There was a deep hole in the stream, into which one of them got, and she was drowned.
Who acts: deep hole, one · What happens: be, get, drown · To what, where: hole
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 (deep hole, one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hole | amod |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 stream | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hole | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 10 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 15 got | mark |
| 11 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drowned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drowned | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drowned | aux:pass |
| 20 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 got | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a deep hole in the stream | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | which one of girls | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | drown | past · passive | hole | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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