Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 14

Afterwards she had two children, one very pretty, and with two legs like her own; the other ugly, and like its father, with one leg longer than the other.

Who acts: girl · What happens: have · To what, where: two children

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 children	nummod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 children	appos
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 pretty	advmod
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 legs	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 legs	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 legs	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 legs	nummod
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 own	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 own	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 legs	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 ugly	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ugly	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ugly	amod
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 father	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 father	cc
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 father	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leg	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 leg	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 leg	nummod
30	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 father	appos
31	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 leg	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 other	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 other	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 longer	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	girl	two children				with two legs like girl's own; leg's father parataxis; afterwards property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 14

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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 14