Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 11
“Weeds of this garden, Weeds of this garden, Spring up, spring up; Work of this garden, Work of this garden, Disappear, disappear.”
Who acts: Weeds · What happens: spring up, disappear
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weeds), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Weeds | punct |
| 2 | Weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Spring | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Weeds | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Weeds | punct |
| 7 | Weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Weeds | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Weeds | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Spring | punct |
| 12 | Spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 Spring | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spring | punct |
| 15 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Spring | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 spring | compound:prt |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Work | punct |
| 18 | Work | Work | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Spring | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Work | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Work | punct |
| 23 | Work | Work | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Work | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 garden | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 garden | det |
| 26 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Work | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Disappear | punct |
| 28 | Disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 Work | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 disappear | punct |
| 30 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 Disappear | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Spring | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up in a quote | infinitive | Weeds of this garden and Weeds of this garden | Work of this garden and Work of this garden parataxis | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring up in a quote | infinitive | Weeds of this garden and Weeds of this garden not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | disappear in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | disappear in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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