Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 88

She said she went at night to the river, when the mother came out and caressed her child and gave it of her milk.

Who acts: girl, mother · What happens: say, go, come out, caress, give · To what, where: river, child · 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 (girl, mother), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 caressed	cc
17	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 child	nmod:poss
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caressed	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 caressed	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 milk	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 milk	nmod:poss
25	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	girl		the river	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
3	come out	past	the mother				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	caress	past	the mother not said here	girl's child				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Experiencer
5	give	past	the mother not said here	river			of girl's milk	vn give-13.1-1 «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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 88