Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 115
He searched for them, and found the girl under the ashes and the boy behind a stone.
Who acts: Lonci · What happens: search, find · To what, where: girl, ashes
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 (Lonci), 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 | 2 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 searched | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 searched | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 ashes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ashes | det |
| 12 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 boy | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ashes | conj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stone | det |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boy | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | Lonci | for others = other | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the girl | the ashes and the boy behind a stone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
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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