Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 2
It was written down for me by an educated grandson of the late chief Moroko.
Who acts: educated grandson · What happens: write down · To what, where: language
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 (educated grandson), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 written | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux:pass |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 written | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 written | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 grandson | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 grandson | det |
| 9 | educated | educated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grandson | amod |
| 10 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 written | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 13 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chief | amod |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grandson | nmod |
| 15 | Moroko | Moroko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 chief | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | past · passive | a educated grandson of the late chief | language | for me | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Result for i=Beneficiary |
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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