Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 30
In the evening he went to his wife’s hut, and to his great joy saw the boy and his sister.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, see, joy · To what, where: hut, boy
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hut | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hut | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 10 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 joy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 joy | amod |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sister | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sister | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boy | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | man's wife's hut | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | man not said here | the boy and man's sister | to man's great joy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | joy | man | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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