Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 21
The sticks that she stuck in the ground were there still, but she saw nothing else of her labour.
Who acts: thing, sticks · What happens: stick, be, see · To what, where: sticks, ground, nothing
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, sticks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sticks | det |
| 2 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 there | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stuck | obj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sticks | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 there | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 saw | obj |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 nothing | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 labour | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 labour | nmod:poss |
| 20 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | thing | the sticks | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme in ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the sticks | still | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | past | thing | nothing of thing's labour | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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