Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 60
He was carried away by the current, but succeeded in getting safely to land some quarter of a mile or so further down.
Who acts: current · What happens: carry away, succeed, get, land · To what, where: One, quarter
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 (current), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 carried | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 current | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 current | det |
| 7 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 succeeded | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 succeeded | cc |
| 10 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 getting | mark |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 succeeded | advcl |
| 13 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 12 getting | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 land | mark |
| 15 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 getting | xcomp |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 quarter | det |
| 17 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 land | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mile | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mile | det |
| 20 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quarter | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 down | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 down | advmod |
| 23 | further | further | ADV | _ | 24 down | advmod |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 succeeded | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past · passive | the current | One | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | succeed | past | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | get | gerund | safely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | land | to-infinitive | some quarter of a mile | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme quarter=Destination |
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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