Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 24

All the children take the family title of the father, and can thus marry people of the same family title as the mother, provided they are not closely related in blood.

Who acts: children · What happens: take, marry, provide, not be, title · To what, where: family title, people, blood, father

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 children	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 title	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 title	compound
7	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 father	det
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 title	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 marry	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 marry	cc
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 marry	aux
14	thus	thus	ADV	_	15 marry	advmod
15	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 marry	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 title	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 title	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 title	amod
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 title	compound
21	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 people	nmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 mother	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mother	det
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 title	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 provided	punct
26	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 marry	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 related	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 related	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 related	advmod
30	closely	closely	ADV	_	31 related	advmod
31	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 provided	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 blood	case
33	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 related	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	all children	the family title of the father			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme
2	marry	can		people of the same family title as the mother		thus property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	provide	past					vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
4	not is	present	children = child		blood	closely, related property	tree rules
5	title			the father			nom title «communication transitive»: of=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 24

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 24