Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 47
She met a man carrying his head under his arm, and she took water to drink from him.
Who acts: tree, man · What happens: meet, carry, take, drink · To what, where: man, head, arm, water
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 (tree, man), 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 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obj |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 man | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carrying | obj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arm | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carrying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | conj |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 drink | mark |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 took | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drink | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | tree | a man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | a man not said here | man's head | man's arm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | tree | water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | tree not said here | from man | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source |
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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