Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 44
Then the very black one saw she was not loved, and she became jealous, so she made a plan to kill her sister.
Who acts: black one, Mbulukazi · What happens: see, not love, become, make, kill · To what, where: Mbulukazi, plan, sister · 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 (black one, Mbulukazi), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 black | advmod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loved | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 loved | advmod |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 15 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 made | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 plan | det |
| 21 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 kill | mark |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kill | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the black one | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not love | past · passive | Mbulukazi | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | become | past | Mbulukazi | jealous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Mbulukazi | a plan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Product | ||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | Mbulukazi not said here | Mbulukazi's sister | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme |
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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