Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 13
In the morning, when Masilo and his wife went to the garden, they were in doubt, and said:
Who acts: Masilo, ’s · What happens: go, be, say · To what, where: garden, doubt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, ’s), 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 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 went | advmod |
| 6 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Masilo | conj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doubt | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 doubt | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 doubt | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 doubt | case |
| 18 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Masilo and Masilo's wife | the garden | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | ’s = ' | doubt | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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