Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 28
I will begin with this one, and take this one next, and that one after, and the one with small feet the last.”
Who acts: I · What happens: begin, take · To what, where: one
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 begin | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 begin | aux |
| 3 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begin | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begin | conj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | next | next | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begin | parataxis |
| 17 | after | after | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 last | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 last | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 last | nsubj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feet | amod |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 last | det |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 begin | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begin | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | future | I | with this one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with one=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | I not said here | this one | next property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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.
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