Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 106
Mpunzanyana took the bread which she had made, and gave it to him.
Who acts: Mpunzanyana · What happens: take, make, give · To what, where: bread, 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 (Mpunzanyana), 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 | Mpunzanyana | Mpunzanyana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bread | det |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bread | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Mpunzanyana | the bread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | the bread | Mpunzanyana nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Mpunzanyana not said here | bread | Makanda | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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