Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 36
The next day the woman went again to work in her garden, but the man hid himself to watch what would happen.
Who acts: woman, man · What happens: go, work, hide, watch, happen · To what, where: man
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 (woman, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 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 | 9 work | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hid | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hid | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hid | nsubj |
| 17 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 hid | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 watch | mark |
| 20 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hid | advcl |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 happen | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 happen | aux |
| 23 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 watch | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the woman | again; day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | in woman's garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | the man | man | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | watch | to-infinitive | the man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | happen | would | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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