Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 72

If she was in a path every one fled out of her way, and even her own children avoided her.

Who acts: woman, one, own children · What happens: be, flee, avoid · To what, where: path, way, woman

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 (woman, one, own children), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 path	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 path	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 path	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 path	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	nsubj
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 way	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 avoided	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 avoided	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 children	advmod
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 children	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 children	amod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 avoided	nsubj
20	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fled	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 avoided	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	woman		a path	tree rules
2	flee	past	every one		woman's way	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out way=Initial_Location
3	avoid	past	woman's own children	woman		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location

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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 72