Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 63
Then she gave it to the nurse, who fastened it on her back.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: give, fasten · To what, where: river, nurse
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 (grandmother), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 nurse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nurse | det |
| 7 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fastened | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fastened | nsubj |
| 10 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fastened | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fastened | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | grandmother | river | the nurse | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to nurse=Recipient | ||
| 2 | fasten | past | river | on grandmother's back; who nsubj | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient on back=Co-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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