Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 30
The mbulu then asked the man who was married to her to go and get some medicine, as she was sick, and when the man went she took off the snare.
Who acts: mbulu, man · What happens: ask, marry, go, get, be, take off · To what, where: man, mbulu, medicine, snare
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 (mbulu, man), 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 mbulu | det |
| 2 | mbulu | mbulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 married | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 married | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 married | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 medicine | det |
| 17 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sick | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 sick | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sick | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sick | cop |
| 22 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 get | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 went | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | ccomp |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 took | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 snare | det |
| 33 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the mbulu | the man | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | the man | mbulu | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | some medicine | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medicine=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | past | mbulu | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | past | the man | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | take off | past | mbulu | the snare | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=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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