Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 59

On another occasion, a Kaffir was trying to cross one of the fords of a river when it was in flood.

Who acts: Kaffir, failure · What happens: try, cross, be · To what, where: occasion, one, flood

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 (Kaffir, failure), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 occasion	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 occasion	det
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trying	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 occasion	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Kaffir	det
6	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 trying	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 trying	aux
8	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cross	mark
10	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trying	xcomp
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cross	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 fords	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fords	det
14	fords	ford	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fords	nmod
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 flood	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flood	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flood	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 flood	case
22	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cross	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 trying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	a Kaffir		another occasion	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cross not said to happen	to-infinitive	a Kaffir not said here	one of the fords of a river		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	is	past	failure		flood	tree rules

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 59