Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 24
When the boys are engaged in any sport, one of the number is selected by lot to tend the calves.
Who acts: lot · What happens: engage, select, tend · To what, where: boys, sport, number, calves
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 engaged | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | aux:pass |
| 5 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sport | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 sport | det |
| 8 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engaged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sport | appos |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 selected | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 selected | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 selected | aux:pass |
| 15 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 lot | case |
| 17 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 selected | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tend | mark |
| 19 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 selected | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 calves | det |
| 21 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tend | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | present · passive | the boys | in any sport goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in sport=Goal | ||||
| 2 | select | present · passive | lot | the number | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tend | to-infinitive | lot not said here | the calves | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=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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