Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Wonderful Horns., sentence 33
He was received by the girl’s father, and stayed there.
Who acts: father · What happens: receive, stay · To what, where: body
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Wonderful Horns.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stayed | cc |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stayed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | the girl's father | body | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | the girl's father not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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