Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 80

She always looked round to see that no one was present, and always put the same command on the girl.

Who acts: mother, one · What happens: look, see, be, put · To what, where: same command · 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 (mother, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 looked	advmod
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 round	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 present	mark
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 present	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 present	cop
11	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 see	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 put	advmod
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 command	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 command	amod
18	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 girl	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girl	det
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	mother		always, round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	mother not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	no one		present property	tree rules
4	put	infinitive	mother not said here	the same command	on the girl; always property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme on girl=Destination

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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 80