Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 130
When they were already in that place a long time, the girl grew to be big.
Who acts: boys, place · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: place
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 (boys, place), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 place | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 place | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | cop |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 place | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 big | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 big | cop |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boys = boy | that place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | that place | time | the girl nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | that place not said here | big property | tree rules |
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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