Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 32

In the morning a mat was spread in the yard, and the young chief was asked to sit down.

Who acts: young chief · What happens: spread, ask, sit down · To what, where: mat, young chief

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 (young chief), 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 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mat	det
5	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spread	aux:pass
7	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 yard	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yard	det
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chief	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chief	amod
15	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	aux:pass
17	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 spread	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sit	mark
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	xcomp
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sit	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past · passive		a mat	morning	in the yard	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in yard=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	past · passive		the young chief			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young chief not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 32