Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 96
She tried to pull back, but the men at the village drew upon the riem.
Who acts: Tangalimlibo, men · What happens: try, pull back, draw
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, men), 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 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pull | mark |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 pull | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 drew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drew | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 riem | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 riem | det |
| 16 | riem | riem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Tangalimlibo | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pull back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tangalimlibo not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | the men at the village | upon the riem | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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