Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 19

His mother told him of his sister who was lost, and when he became a man he determined to go in search of her.

Who acts: mother, chief · What happens: tell, lose, become, determine, go, search · To what, where: chief, sister, man, search, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, chief), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sister	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod:poss
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lost	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sister	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 became	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 became	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 became	nsubj
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	xcomp
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 determined	nsubj
19	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 determined	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 search	case
23	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 search	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	chief's mother		chief		of chief's sister	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	lose	past · passive		chief's sister				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	become	past	chief	a man				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	determine	past	chief	a man not said here				tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	chief not said here			search of mother		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
6	search			mother				nom search «act transitive»: of=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 19

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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 19