Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 97
She was drawn away, but the river followed her, and its water turned into blood.
Who acts: river, water · What happens: draw away, follow, turn · To what, where: Tangalimlibo, blood
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 (river, water), 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 drawn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawn | aux:pass |
| 3 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drawn | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 followed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 followed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 followed | nsubj |
| 9 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawn | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 followed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 water | nmod:poss |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawn | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 blood | case |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw away | past · passive | Tangalimlibo | away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the river | Tangalimlibo | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | river's water | blood | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into blood=Trajectory |
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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