Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 86
The girl went and brought some berries, but they were not eaten by the child.
Who acts: girl, child · What happens: go, bring, not eat · To what, where: berries
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 (girl, child), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 berries | det |
| 7 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eaten | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 eaten | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eaten | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 eaten | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 eaten | advmod |
| 13 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eaten | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the girl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | the girl not said here | some berries | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not eat | past · passive | the child | berries = berry | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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