Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 7
One day they went to dig in their garden, and they continued digging the whole day long.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, dig, continue · To what, where: garden
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 (man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dig | mark |
| 6 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dig | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 continued | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 continued | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 continued | nsubj |
| 13 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 continued | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 digging | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 digging | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dig | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's garden | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | man | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dig | gerund | man not said here | day | long property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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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