Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 44
He stood, and said: “I must return for my bird, my beautiful bird with the long tail and topknot on its head.
Who acts: Sikulume · What happens: stand, say, return · To what, where: beautiful bird, head · 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 (Sikulume), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 return | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 return | aux |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bird | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bird | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bird | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bird | amod |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tail | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tail | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tail | amod |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 topknot | cc |
| 23 | topknot | topknot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tail | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Sikulume | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sikulume not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return in a quote | must | Sikulume | my beautiful bird | hut's head | for my bird; with the long tail and topknot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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