Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 87
“It is foolish, It is foolish to be a traveller, And to go on a journey With the blood of girls upon one!
Who acts: song · What happens: be, go · To what, where: traveller, journey
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 (song), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 foolish | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 foolish | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 foolish | cop |
| 4 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 foolish | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 foolish | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 foolish | cop |
| 8 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 foolish | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 traveller | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 traveller | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 traveller | det |
| 12 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foolish | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 foolish | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 journey | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 journey | det |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | With | with | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 blood | det |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 journey | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 girls | case |
| 24 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 blood | nmod |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 go | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | song | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | song | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | song not said here | a traveller | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | song not said here | a journey with the blood of girls | upon one | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location |
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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