Kaffir folk-lore, Another Story of Kenkebe., sentence 1
At a certain time, Kenkebe went to get his wife at the place of her parents.
Who acts: Kenkebe · What happens: go, get · To what, where: wife, place
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Another 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | Kenkebe | Kenkebe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 parents | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 parents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 place | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Kenkebe | time | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Kenkebe not said here | Kenkebe's wife | the place of wife's parents | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent wife=Theme at place=Asset |
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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