Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 41
The girl thought he ought not to be so long absent, for the river was close by, so she went to look for him.
Who acts: girl, Simbukumbukwana, river · What happens: think, not be, be, go, look
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 (girl, Simbukumbukwana, river), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 absent | nsubj |
| 5 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 absent | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 absent | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 absent | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 absent | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 absent | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 absent | amod |
| 11 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 close | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 close | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 close | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 close | cop |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 absent | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 close | fixed |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 absent | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 look | mark |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the girl | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | ought | Simbukumbukwana | absent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the river | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | girl | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | girl not said here | for Simbukumbukwana | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/8/41/