Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 39
The pretty girl’s name was Mbulukazi, which name was given to her because her handsome dress was made of the skin of a mbulu.
Who acts: name, pretty girl · What happens: be, give, make, name · To what, where: Mbulukazi, name, girl, handsome dress
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, pretty 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mbulukazi | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Mbulukazi | cop |
| 7 | Mbulukazi | Mbulukazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Mbulukazi | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 given | obl |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dress | amod |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 given | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 skin | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 skin | det |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mbulu | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mbulu | det |
| 26 | mbulu | mbulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 skin | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mbulukazi | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the pretty girl's name | Mbulukazi | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | which name | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | girl's handsome dress | of the skin of a mbulu | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | name | the pretty 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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