Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 9
“Take it, And pass on.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, pass on · To what, where: mantle
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 (you), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pass | punct |
| 5 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pass | cc |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 pass | compound:prt |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | mantle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass on in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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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