Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 3

The other wife had one daughter who was very black, and several children besides, but they were all crows.

Who acts: other wife, one daughter, wives · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one daughter, crows

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 (other wife, one daughter, wives), 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	3 wife	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 daughter	nummod
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 black	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 black	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 black	advmod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 children	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 children	cc
13	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 children	amod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	parataxis
15	besides	besides	ADV	_	14 children	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crows	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 crows	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 crows	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 crows	cop
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 crows	det
21	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the other wife	one daughter	several children parataxis	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is	past	one daughter		black property	tree rules
3	is a	past	wives = wife	all crows		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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 3