Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 76
When the child had finished sucking, she gave it back to the nurse, telling her to take it home.
Who acts: child, name · What happens: finish, suck, give, tell, take · To what, where: line, nurse, name · 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 (child, name), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 gave | advcl |
| 6 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 finished | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 nurse | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 nurse | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nurse | det |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 telling | punct |
| 16 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gave | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 telling | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 telling | xcomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 take | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | the child | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | suck | gerund | the child not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | name | line | the nurse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to nurse=Recipient | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | name not said here | name | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | name not said here | line | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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