Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 17
One day the mother of Simbukumbukwana went to work in her garden, and left the boy at home with the door fastened.
Who acts: mother, door · What happens: go, leave, fasten · To what, where: garden, boy, home
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, door), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Simbukumbukwana | case |
| 6 | Simbukumbukwana | Simbukumbukwana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | nmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 garden | nmod:poss |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 23 fastened | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fastened | nsubj |
| 23 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the mother of Simbukumbukwana | mother's garden | day | to work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | leave | past | the mother of Simbukumbukwana not said here | the boy | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 3 | fasten | past | the door | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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