Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 32
She took off a piece of her clothing and gave it to the ox, which ate it.
Who acts: Tangalimlibo, ox · What happens: take off, give, eat · To what, where: piece, ox
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 (Tangalimlibo, ox), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 clothing | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ox | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ox | det |
| 14 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ate | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ate | nsubj |
| 17 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ox | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ate | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Tangalimlibo | a piece of Tangalimlibo's clothing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Tangalimlibo not said here | piece | the ox | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ox=Recipient | |||
| 3 | eat | past | the ox | piece | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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