Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 26
They did as they were told, and built huts in that place to live in.
Who acts: others · What happens: do, tell, build, live in · To what, where: others, huts, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (others), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 built | cc |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 told | conj |
| 10 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 built | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 place | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 live | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | others = other | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | others = other | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | build | participle | huts | that place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product | ||||
| 4 | live in | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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