Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 25
After a time one of the men of that kraal married the mbulu, and the real girl was sent to the gardens to drive the birds away from the corn.
Who acts: men · What happens: marry, send, drive · To what, where: mbulu, real girl, gardens, birds
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 married | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 married | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kraal | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 kraal | det |
| 10 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | nmod |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mbulu | det |
| 13 | mbulu | mbulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sent | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | aux:pass |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 married | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 gardens | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gardens | det |
| 23 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sent | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 drive | mark |
| 25 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 birds | det |
| 27 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 drive | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 drive | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 corn | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 corn | det |
| 31 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 away | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the men of that kraal | the mbulu | after one a time | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mbulu=Patient | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | the real girl | the gardens | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to garden=Destination | ||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | the birds | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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