Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 133
When she saw he was turned into an eland, she made a great fire and drove him into it.
Who acts: girl · What happens: see, turn, make, drive · To what, where: chief, eland, great fire · 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 (girl), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | aux:pass |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 eland | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 eland | det |
| 9 | eland | eland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fire | amod |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drove | cc |
| 17 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drove | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drove | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | chief | a eland | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into eland=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | past | girl | a great fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | girl not said here | chief | eland | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into it=Trajectory |
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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