Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 31
Soon afterwards a young chief who was passing by saw the girl, and fell in love with her.
Who acts: young chief · What happens: pass, see, fall · To what, where: girl, love, young chief
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 (young chief), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 chief | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 chief | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chief | amod |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 passing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passing | aux |
| 8 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 chief | acl |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 saw | mark |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passing | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chief | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · progressive | a young chief | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | a young chief not said here | the girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | love | with girl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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