Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 37
Who are you, digging my father’s ground?
What happens: dig · To what, where: ground
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 digging | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 digging | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 digging | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 digging | punct |
| 5 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ground | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 digging | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 digging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present · progressive | my father's ground | Who nsubj; you nsubj | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
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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