Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 36

The mother of the very black girl and the crows was very jealous when she saw such a fine young chief coming with so many cattle.

Who acts: mother, girl, fine young chief · What happens: be, see, come · To what, where: fine 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 (mother, girl, fine 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jealous	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 girl	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 black	advmod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crows	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crows	det
10	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 girl	conj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 jealous	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 jealous	advmod
13	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 jealous	advcl
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 chief	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chief	det
19	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 chief	amod
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 chief	amod
21	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
22	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 chief	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 cattle	case
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cattle	amod
26	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 coming	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 jealous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mother of the black girl and the crows		jealous property	tree rules
2	see	past	girl	such fine young chief		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	such fine young chief not said here		with many cattle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 36