Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 64

The nodiwu, when whirled round gives forth a noise that can be heard at a considerable distance.

Who acts: nodiwu · What happens: whirl, give, hear · To what, where: round, noise

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 (nodiwu), 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 nodiwu	det
2	nodiwu	nodiwu	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nodiwu	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 whirled	advmod
5	whirled	whirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 nodiwu	acl
6	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whirled	obj
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	7 gives	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 noise	det
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 heard	nsubj:pass
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 heard	aux:pass
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 noise	acl:relcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 distance	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 distance	det
17	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 distance	amod
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whirl	participle		round		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent round=Theme
2	give	present	the nodiwu	a noise	forth property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme
3	hear	can · passive		a noise	at a considerable distance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 64