Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 37

She wanted her daughter to be the one that was to be married; so she dressed her as finely as she could, but she had no such pretty clothes as the other girl had.

Who acts: girl, daughter, other girl · What happens: want, be, marry, dress, have · To what, where: daughter, one, Breast, such pretty clothes

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 (girl, daughter, other girl), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	8 one	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 married	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 married	aux:pass
11	to	to	PART	_	13 married	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 married	aux:pass
13	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 one	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 dressed	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 dressed	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dressed	nsubj
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dressed	obj
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 finely	advmod
20	finely	finely	ADV	_	17 dressed	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 could	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 could	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 finely	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 clothes	det
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 clothes	amod
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 clothes	amod
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 had	obj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 had	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 girl	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 girl	amod
35	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	girl	girl's daughter		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl's daughter not said here	the one		tree rules
3	marry	past · passive	girl not said here	the one		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	dress	past	girl	Breast	finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	have	past	girl	no such pretty clothes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
6	have	past	the other girl			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 37