Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 9

His other wife’s children are crows, which come and eat my corn, and she laughs at me.”

Who acts: children, crows, woman · What happens: be, come, eat, laugh · To what, where: crows, corn

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 (children, crows, woman), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 children	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 wife	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crows	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crows	cop
7	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crows	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eat	cc
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	conj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 corn	nmod:poss
14	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laughs	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughs	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 laughs	nsubj
18	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crows	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 laughs	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crows	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 crows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	husband's other wife's children	crows		tree rules
2	come	present	crows			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	present	crows not said here	my corn		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
4	laugh	present	woman		at me	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 9