Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 81

The old woman said to her: “You will come to a place where two paths branch off.

Who acts: old woman, mouse, two paths · What happens: say, come, branch off · To what, where: mouse, place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, mouse, two paths), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 branch	advmod
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 paths	nummod
17	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 branch	nsubj
18	branch	branch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 place	acl:relcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 branch	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman	mouse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	come in a quote	future	mouse		a place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	branch off in a quote	present	two paths			vn differ-23.4 «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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 81