Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 82
The girl was afterwards married to a son of the great chief, and Hinazinci had for his wife the daughter of that great one.
Who acts: Hinazinci · What happens: marry, have · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hinazinci), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 married | advmod |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 son | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chief | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chief | amod |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 15 | Hinazinci | Hinazinci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 daughter | det |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 one | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | amod |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the girl | to a son of the great chief; afterwards property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to son=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Hinazinci | for son's wife and the daughter of that great one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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