Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 58
So she had to go away in sorrow, and Mbulukazi remained the great wife of the chief.
Who acts: Breast, Mbulukazi · What happens: have, go away, remain · To what, where: sorrow, great wife
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 (Breast, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sorrow | case |
| 8 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remained | cc |
| 11 | Mbulukazi | Mbulukazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | nsubj |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wife | amod |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 chief | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chief | det |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wife | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Breast | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go away | to-infinitive | Breast not said here | sorrow | away property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sorrow=Location | |||
| 3 | remain | past | Mbulukazi | the great wife of the chief | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wife=Attribute |
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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