Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 36
After this the same man who had married the mbulu took the girl to be his wife.
Who acts: same man · What happens: marry, take, be · To what, where: same man, girl, wife
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 (same 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 married | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | aux |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mbulu | det |
| 10 | mbulu | mbulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 wife | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wife | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | the same man this | the mbulu obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the same man this | the girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the same man this not said here | person's wife | person nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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