Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 2

She grieved much about that, till one day a bird came to her and gave her some little pellets.

Who acts: She, bird · What happens: grieve, come, give · To what, where: her, little pellets, bird

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 (She, bird), 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 grieved	nsubj
2	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	2 grieved	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 grieved	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
7	till	till	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grieved	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 pellets	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pellets	amod
20	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gave	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past	She				about that	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	past	a bird		her = she	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
3	give	past	a bird not said here	some little pellets	bird			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pellet=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 Tangalimlibo., sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 2