Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 51
Then the very black one returned home, and when her husband asked where Mbulukazi was, she said that she was still with their father.
Who acts: black one, husband, Mbulukazi · What happens: return, ask, be, say · 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, husband, 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 returned | 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 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 asked | advmod |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 was | advmod |
| 15 | Mbulukazi | Mbulukazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 father | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 father | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 father | cop |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 father | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 father | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the black one | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Mbulukazi's husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past | Mbulukazi | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Mbulukazi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Mbulukazi | still | with children's father; children = child nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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