Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 46
Mbulukazi consented, and as soon as they obtained leave from their husband they left.
Who acts: Mbulukazi, children · What happens: consent, obtain, leave · To what, where: husband
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 (Mbulukazi, children), 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 | Mbulukazi | Mbulukazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 leave | cc |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 leave | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 obtained | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 obtained | nsubj |
| 9 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soon | advcl |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 consented | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 husband | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Mbulukazi | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | obtain | past | children = child | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | leave | present | Mbulukazi not said here | from children's husband; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from husband=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | children = child | children's husband not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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