Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 70
A child had died in her village, and the witchfinder had pointed her out as the person who had caused its death.
Who acts: child, person · What happens: die, point out, cause · To what, where: witchfinder, death
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 (child, person), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | aux |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 village | nmod:poss |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pointed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pointed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witchfinder | det |
| 11 | witchfinder | witchfinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pointed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pointed | aux |
| 13 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 died | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pointed | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pointed | compound:prt |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 person | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pointed | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 caused | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 caused | aux |
| 21 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 person | acl:relcl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 death | nmod:poss |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caused | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · perfect | a child | in woman's village | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in village=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | point out | past · perfect · passive | the witchfinder | as the person; woman obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause | past · perfect | the person | person's death | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | ||||
| 4 | die | person | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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