Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 38
Her name was Mahlunguluza, for she was called after the crows, who were the other children of her mother.
Who acts: name, Mahlunguluza, crows, girl · What happens: be, call, name · To what, where: Mahlunguluza, girl, other children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name, Mahlunguluza, crows, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mahlunguluza | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Mahlunguluza | cop |
| 4 | Mahlunguluza | Mahlunguluza | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 called | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Mahlunguluza | acl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 crows | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crows | det |
| 12 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 children | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 children | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 children | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 children | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 children | amod |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crows | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 children | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mahlunguluza | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | girl's name | Mahlunguluza | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Mahlunguluza not said here | girl | after the crows | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the crows | the other children | of girl's mother | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name | girl | nom name «communication 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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