Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 48
Then she took a milk-basket and a calabash ladle, and went weeping to the river.
Who acts: thing · What happens: take, go, weep · To what, where: milk basket, river
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 (thing), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 basket | det |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 basket | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 milk | punct |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ladle | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ladle | det |
| 10 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ladle | compound |
| 11 | ladle | ladle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 basket | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 went | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 river | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weeping | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | thing | a milk basket and a calabash ladle | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | thing not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | thing not said here | the river | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to river=Recipient |
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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