Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 54
She then walked straight into the deep place, and would not allow any of them to touch her.
Who acts: companion, any · What happens: walk, not allow, touch · To what, where: deep place, any, companion
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 (companion, any), 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 | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 walked | advmod |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 place | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 allow | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 allow | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 allow | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 allow | advmod |
| 13 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 walked | advcl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 allow | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 any | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 touch | mark |
| 18 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allow | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 touch | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | companion | then | into the deep place result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into place=Result | |||
| 2 | not allow | would | companion not said here | any of others | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer any=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | touch not said to happen | to-infinitive | any of others not said here | companion | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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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