Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 40
His joy in walking was great, so that he did not stop at the river, but put the pot down there and continued to go forward.
Who acts: joy, Simbukumbukwana · What happens: be, not stop, put, continue, go, joy · To what, where: river, pot, walking
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 (joy, Simbukumbukwana), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 joy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 great | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 walking | case |
| 4 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joy | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | cop |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 stop | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 stop | advmod |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 great | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stop | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stop | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pot | det |
| 21 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 there | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 put | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 continued | cc |
| 25 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 continued | xcomp |
| 28 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Simbukumbukwana's joy in walking | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stop | past · do-support | Simbukumbukwana | the river | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at river=Location | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | Simbukumbukwana not said here | the pot | there | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pot=Goal | |||
| 4 | continue | past | Simbukumbukwana not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | Simbukumbukwana not said here | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | joy | Simbukumbukwana | walking | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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