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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 8

She replied: “It is because I have no children, and my husband does not love me.

Who acts: woman, name, husband · What happens: reply, be, have, not love · To what, where: children, woman · 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 (woman, name, husband), 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

nsubjpunctpunctnsubjccompmarknsubjccompdetobjpunctccnmod:possnsubjauxadvmodparataxisobjpunctrootShePRONrepliedVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTItPRONisVERBbecauseSCONJIPRONhaveVERBnoDETchildrenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmyPRONhusbandNOUNdoesAUXnotPARTloveVERBmePRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 repliednsubj
2repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3::PUNCT_6 ispunct
4“"PUNCT_6 ispunct
5ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 isnsubj
6isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 repliedccomp
7becausebecauseSCONJ_9 havemark
8IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 havensubj
9havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 isccomp
10nonoDETPronType=Neg11 childrendet
11childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur9 haveobj
12,,PUNCT_18 lovepunct
13andandCCONJ_18 lovecc
14mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 husbandnmod:poss
15husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing18 lovensubj
16doesdoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 loveaux
17notnotPARTPolarity=Neg18 loveadvmod
18loveloveVERBVerbForm=Inf2 repliedparataxis
19meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 loveobj
20..PUNCT_2 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastwomanvn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2be in a quotepresentnametree rules
3have in a quotepresentwomanno childrenvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4not love in a quotepresent · do-supportmy husbandwomanvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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