Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 31

He was so delighted that he remained there that night, and after talking it over with his wife, he agreed to let Broad Breast marry the girl.

Who acts: man, Broad Breast · What happens: be, remain, talk over, agree, let, marry · To what, where: truth, Broad Breast, 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 (man, Broad Breast), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 delighted	advmod
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 remained	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 remained	nsubj
7	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	advcl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 remained	advmod
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remained	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 agreed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 agreed	cc
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 talking	mark
14	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 agreed	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talking	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	14 talking	compound:prt
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 wife	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talking	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talking	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 agreed	nsubj
22	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 let	mark
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 agreed	xcomp
25	Broad	Broad	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Breast	compound
26	Breast	Breast	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 let	obj
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 marry	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man				delighted property	tree rules
2	remain	past	man		there	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk over	gerund	man not said here	truth			with man's wife	tree rules
4	agree speech: agree	past	man					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	Broad Breast				tree rules
6	marry	infinitive	Broad Breast not said here	the girl				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 31