Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 18
Wherever they go, you must follow, and you must not see my face again without them.”
Who acts: birds, you · What happens: go, follow, not see · To what, where: face
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 (birds, you), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 follow | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 follow | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 follow | aux |
| 7 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 follow | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 follow | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | birds = bird | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | must | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not see | must | you | my face | again | without birds = bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
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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