Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 1
In this story the girls are represented as taking fermented milk to the man.
What happens: represent, take, ferment · To what, where: girls, fermented milk, man
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 represented | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girls | det |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 represented | aux:pass |
| 7 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 taking | mark |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 represented | advcl |
| 10 | fermented | ferment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 milk | amod |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | the girls | in this story | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in story=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | fermented milk | the man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to man=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ferment | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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