Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 26

So the girl who was very black was told to come, but the young chief said: “That is not the one I want; the one I saw was lighter in colour and much prettier.”

Who acts: girl, young chief, That, I, one · What happens: be, tell, come, say, not be, want · To what, where: girl, one, colour · Speech: someone speaks here

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, young chief, That, I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj:pass
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 black	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 black	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 black	advmod
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chief	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chief	amod
16	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
20	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 one	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 one	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 one	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 want	nsubj
26	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 one	acl:relcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 lighter	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lighter	nsubj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 one	acl:relcl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lighter	cop
33	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 told	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 colour	case
35	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lighter	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 prettier	cc
37	much	much	ADV	_	38 prettier	advmod
38	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 lighter	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl			black property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the girl not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the young chief				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is a in a quote	present	That	the one			tree rules
6	want in a quote	present	I	the one not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
7	see in a quote	past	I	the one not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
8	is in a quote	past	the one		colour	light property	tree rules
9	be in a quote		the one not said here				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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 26