Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 104
Then she saw the chief Makanda Mahlanu coming.
Who acts: mother, chief Makanda · What happens: see, come · To what, where: chief Makanda
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, chief Makanda), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Makanda | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Makanda | amod |
| 6 | Makanda | Makanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | Mahlanu | Mahlanu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Makanda | flat |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | mother | the chief Makanda | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | the chief Makanda not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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