Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 48
He is so poor, but now since his garden has appeared he and his children are so fat!”
Who acts: Masilo, garden · What happens: be, appear
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, garden), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 poor | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 poor | advmod |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | cc |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 appeared | aux |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 poor | advcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fat | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 children | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 children | nmod:poss |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 he | conj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fat | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 fat | advmod |
| 19 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appeared | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Masilo | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | present · perfect | Masilo's garden | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Masilo | fat property | tree rules |
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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