Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 2
One day the man went over the river to another village, which was the residence of a great chief.
Who acts: man, village · What happens: go, be · To what, where: river, residence
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 (man, village), 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 | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 village | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 village | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 residence | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 residence | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 residence | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 residence | det |
| 16 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 village | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chief | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chief | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chief | amod |
| 20 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 residence | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the man | the river | day | to another village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over river=Initial_Location to village=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | past | another village | the residence | of a great chief | 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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