Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 27
She went in and swept the floor; then she took millet and ground it and made bread.
Who acts: voice · What happens: go in, sweep, take, make · To what, where: floor, millet, bread
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 (voice), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 swept | cc |
| 5 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swept | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 took | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 12 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ground | cc |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 millet | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | voice | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sweep | past | voice not said here | the floor | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | take | past | voice | millet and ground | then | floor obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument millet=Theme it=Destination | ||
| 4 | make | past | voice not said here | bread | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bread=Product |
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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