Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 4

The one who had no offspring was very downcast on that account, and used to go about weeping all day.

Who acts: one · What happens: have, be, use, go, weep · To what, where: offspring, account

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 (one), 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 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 downcast	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 offspring	det
6	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 downcast	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 downcast	advmod
9	downcast	downcast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 account	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 account	det
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 downcast	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 used	cc
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 downcast	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	xcomp
18	about	about	SCONJ	_	19 weeping	mark
19	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 go	advcl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weeping	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 downcast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the one	no offspring				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offspring=Patient
2	is	past	the one		that account		downcast property	tree rules
3	use	participle						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	go	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	weep	gerund				day		vn breathe-40.1.2 «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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 4