Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 52
After a little time the girl was sent to look for her, but she came back, saying:
Who acts: thing · What happens: send, look, come back, say · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | aux:pass |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 came | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the girl | time | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | for thing | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come back | past | thing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | thing not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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