Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 65

In the middle of the night the nurse went down to the river with the child, singing this song:

Who acts: nurse · What happens: go down, sing · To what, where: song

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 (nurse), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nurse	det
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 river	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 singing	punct
18	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	advcl
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 song	det
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 singing	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the nurse					to the river with the child; in the middle of the night; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in middle=Attribute
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the nurse not said here	this song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 65