Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 40
The mother of Mahlunguluza spoke to the young chief about her daughter, and so he married both the girls.
Who acts: mother, Mahlunguluza · What happens: speak, marry · To what, where: girls · 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 (mother, Mahlunguluza), 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 | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Mahlunguluza | case |
| 4 | Mahlunguluza | Mahlunguluza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | nmod |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 chief | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chief | amod |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chief | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 married | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 married | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 married | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 married | nsubj |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | conj |
| 18 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 20 girls | cc:preconj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girls | det |
| 20 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 married | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the mother of Mahlunguluza | to the young chief about mother's daughter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chief=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | Mahlunguluza | the girls | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
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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