Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 31
After a time his father and his mother came home; they went in and saw the clean floor and bread ready for eating.
Who acts: father · What happens: come, go in, see, eat · To what, where: clean floor
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 (father), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mother | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | conj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 18 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 floor | amod |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bread | cc |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 floor | conj |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 eating | mark |
| 24 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 ready | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Simbukumbukwana's father and Simbukumbukwana's mother | time | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go in | past | father | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | father not said here | the clean floor and bread | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer floor=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | eat | gerund | father not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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