Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 19
On the third day she went to her work with a sorrowful heart, remembering the words spoken by her husband.
Who acts: thing · What happens: go, remember, speak, work · To what, where: work, words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thing), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 12 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remembering | punct |
| 15 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 words | det |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 remembering | obj |
| 18 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 words | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 husband | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spoken | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | thing | thing's work | day | with a sorrowful heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | remember | gerund | thing not said here | the words | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | participle | the words not said here | by thing's husband | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | work | thing | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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