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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 24

As soon as the young chief saw the hut that the girl went to, he returned home with his party and asked his father for cattle with which to marry her.

Who acts: girl, boy · What happens: see, go, return, ask, marry · To what, where: hut, father, girl

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Mbulukazi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, boy), 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

advmodadvmodcasedetamodobldetobjmarkdetnsubjadvcloblpunctnsubjconjadvmodcasenmod:possoblccconjnmod:possiobjcaseoblcaseoblmarkacl:relclobjpunctrootAsADVsoonADVasADPtheDETyoungADJchiefNOUNsawVERBtheDEThutNOUNthatSCONJtheDETgirlNOUNwentVERBtoADP,PUNCThePRONreturnedVERBhomeADVwithADPhisPRONpartyNOUNandCCONJaskedVERBhisPRONfatherNOUNforADPcattleNOUNwithADPwhichPRONtoPARTmarryVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos7 sawadvmod
3asasADP_6 chiefcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 chiefdet
5youngyoungADJDegree=Pos6 chiefamod
6chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing7 sawobl
7sawseeVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 hutdet
9huthutNOUNNumber=Sing7 sawobj
10thatthatSCONJ_13 wentmark
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 girldet
12girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing13 wentnsubj
13wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 sawadvcl
14totoADP_13 wentobl
15,,PUNCT_17 returnedpunct
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 returnednsubj
17returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 sawconj
18homehomeADV_17 returnedadvmod
19withwithADP_21 partycase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 partynmod:poss
21partypartyNOUNNumber=Sing17 returnedobl
22andandCCONJ_23 askedcc
23askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 sawconj
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 fathernmod:poss
25fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing23 askediobj
26forforADP_27 cattlecase
27cattlecattleNOUNNumber=Plur23 askedobl
28withwithADP_29 whichcase
29whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 marryobl
30totoPART_31 marrymark
31marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf27 cattleacl:relcl
32hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 marryobj
33..PUNCT_7 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe hutas the young chief; soon propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus as chief=Attribute
2gopastthe girlvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3returnpastboywith boy's party; home propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4ask speech: askpastboy's fatherfor cattlevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
5marryto-infinitivegirlwith cattlevn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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