Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 135
She took the coal out and put it in a pot of water, when it became a young man again.
Who acts: girl, coal · What happens: take out, put, become · To what, where: coal, pot, young man
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, coal), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coal | det |
| 4 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pot | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pot | det |
| 11 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pot | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 became | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 became | nsubj |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | xcomp |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 became | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | girl | the coal | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | girl not said here | coal | a pot of water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pot=Destination | |||
| 3 | become | past | coal | a young man | again | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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