Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 49
Flesh was then given to him, and a bone with much marrow in it.
What happens: give · To what, where: Flesh, Fat
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 given | advmod |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bone | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bone | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bone | det |
| 10 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 marrow | case |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 marrow | amod |
| 13 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bone | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 marrow | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | Flesh | Fat | then | a bone with much marrow in marrow parataxis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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