Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 150
There was a great shaking and a rising up of the river, and Tangalimlibo came out.
Who acts: great shaking, Tangalimlibo · What happens: be, rise, come out
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 (great shaking, Tangalimlibo), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shaking | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shaking | amod |
| 5 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 up | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 up | det |
| 8 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 up | amod |
| 9 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shaking | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 up | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | Tangalimlibo | Tangalimlibo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great shaking and a rising up of the river | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come out | past | Tangalimlibo | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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