Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 29
They went out of the house that the bridegroom might sleep in it.
Who acts: wives, bridegroom · What happens: go out, sleep · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wives, bridegroom), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridegroom | det |
| 9 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sleep | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sleep | aux |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sleep | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | wives = wife | the house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | might | the bridegroom | house | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
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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