Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 39
She went in and began to smear the floor; water was wanting, so she sent Simbukumbukwana to the river for some.
Who acts: sister, water · What happens: go in, begin, smear, want, send · To what, where: floor, Simbukumbukwana, river
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 (sister, water), 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 began | cc |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 smear | mark |
| 7 | smear | smear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 floor | det |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smear | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 wanting | punct |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wanting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wanting | aux |
| 13 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 sent | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 18 | Simbukumbukwana | Simbukumbukwana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 some | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 sent | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | sister | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | sister not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | smear | to-infinitive | sister not said here | the floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent floor=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | past · progressive | water | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | send | past | sister | Simbukumbukwana | the river | for some | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent simbukumbukwana=Theme to river=Destination |
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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