Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 9
That was the work of the first day, and when the sun was just about to set she went home.
Who acts: That, sun, woman · What happens: be, set, go · To what, where: work
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 (That, sun, woman), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 work | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 work | det |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 about | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 about | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 about | cop |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 about | advmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 set | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 set | mark |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | parataxis |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | ccomp |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the work | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the sun | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | woman | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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