Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 94
She asked the girl if any one was there, and when the girl replied that there was no one she took her child.
Who acts: Tangalimlibo, one, girl · What happens: ask, be, reply, take · To what, where: girl, one, 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 (Tangalimlibo, one, girl), 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 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 there | mark |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 there | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 asked | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 replied | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 replied | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 was | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 child | nmod:poss |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Tangalimlibo | the girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | any one | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Tangalimlibo | no one not said here | Tangalimlibo's child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=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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