Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 7
Then she got some very fine gravel and placed before the bird, which it received at her hands.
Who acts: bird · What happens: get, place, receive · To what, where: fine gravel, hands
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 (bird), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 gravel | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 fine | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gravel | amod |
| 7 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 placed | cc |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 received | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 received | nsubj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 received | nsubj |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bird | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 received | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | bird | some fine gravel | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gravel=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | place | participle | bird not said here | before the bird | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before bird=Destination | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | the bird | bird's hands | gravel nsubj | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at hand=Location |
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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