Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 37
After a time came the sister of Simbukumbukwana and said: “Where are the people?”
Who acts: time · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (time), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sister | det |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Simbukumbukwana | case |
| 8 | Simbukumbukwana | Simbukumbukwana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 13 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 people | advmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 people | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a time | the sister of Simbukumbukwana nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the people | tree rules |
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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