Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 25

Marriage proposals may come from the father or guardian of the young woman, or they may first be made by the man himself or the relatives of the man who wishes to take a wife.

Who acts: Marriage proposals, man · What happens: come, make, wish, take · To what, where: proposals, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Marriage proposals, man), 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	Marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposals	compound
2	proposals	proposal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 guardian	cc
9	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guardian	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 made	aux
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 made	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	aux:pass
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 come	parataxis
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 man	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 man	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 relatives	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 relatives	det
27	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 man	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 man	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 relatives	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 wishes	nsubj
32	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 man	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wishes	ccomp
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 wife	det
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	may	Marriage proposals			from the father or guardian of the young woman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from father=Initial_Location
2	make	may · passive	the man guardian or the relatives of the man	proposals = proposal		first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
3	wish	present	the man				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive			a wife		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 25