Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 13
[1] So the snake became very angry, and bit her, when she immediately became of the same hideous colour as it was.
Who acts: snake, colour · What happens: become, bite, be · To what, where: snake
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, colour), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 became | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 became | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 angry | advmod |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bit | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bit | cc |
| 12 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | parataxis |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bit | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 became | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 became | nsubj |
| 17 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 18 became | advmod |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bit | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 colour | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 colour | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 colour | amod |
| 22 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 colour | amod |
| 23 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 became | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the snake | 1 discourse; angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bite | past | snake | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 3 | become | past | snake | of the same hideous colour; immediately property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | past | colour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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