Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 153
After this there was a great famine, and the mother of those people came to their village.
Who acts: this, mother · What happens: be, come · To what, where: village
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 (this, mother), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 7 famine | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 famine | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 famine | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 famine | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 famine | amod |
| 7 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mother | det |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mother | nmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 famine | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 village | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 village | nmod:poss |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 famine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | after a great famine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the mother of that people | people's village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_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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