Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 122
They entered it from the wrong side, so that all the people said: “Why is this?”
Who acts: people · What happens: enter, say, be · To what, where: village, wrong side, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 said | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 people | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | parataxis |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 this | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 this | punct |
| 17 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 this | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 this | cop |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 said | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | people | village | the wrong side | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | all people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | 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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