Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 36

She went on her way again, and met with an old woman sitting by a big stone.

Who acts: Mpunzikazi, old woman · What happens: go, meet, sit · To what, where: way

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 (Mpunzikazi, old woman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 met	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 met	cc
9	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	obl
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 woman	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 stone	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stone	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stone	amod
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mpunzikazi	Mpunzikazi's way	again		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	meet	participle	Mpunzikazi not said here			with a old woman	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with woman=Co-Agent
3	sit	gerund	a old woman not said here			by a big stone	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stone=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 36