Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 31
After this he gave his wife some nongwes to roast.
Who acts: Kenkebe · What happens: give, roast · To what, where: nongwes, wife
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kenkebe), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 gave | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 nongwes | det |
| 8 | nongwes | nongwe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 roast | mark |
| 10 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nongwes | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Kenkebe | some nongwes | Kenkebe's wife | after this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient nongwe=Theme | ||
| 2 | roast | to-infinitive | Kenkebe not said here | some nongwes not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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