Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 149
Then that woman worked with her medicines while they put the meat in the water.
Who acts: woman, oxen · What happens: work, put, medicine · To what, where: meat, water
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, oxen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 worked | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 4 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 medicines | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 medicines | nmod:poss |
| 7 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worked | obl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worked | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 meat | det |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | that woman | then | with woman's medicines | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with medicine=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | put | past | oxen = ox | the meat | the water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme in water=Destination | |||
| 3 | medicine | woman | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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