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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 28

If the proposal comes from the girl’s father, he sends an assagai, which is accepted if the suit is agreeable, or returned if it is not.

Who acts: proposal, messenger, suit, assagai · What happens: come, send, accept, be, return, not be · To what, where: assagai

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 (proposal, messenger, suit, assagai), 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

markdetnsubjadvclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctnsubjdetobjpunctnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclmarkdetnsubjcopadvclpunctccconjmarknsubjadvcladvmodpunctrootIfSCONJtheDETproposalNOUNcomesVERBfromADPtheDETgirlNOUN’sPARTfatherNOUN,PUNCThePRONsendsVERBanDETassagaiNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONisAUXacceptedVERBifSCONJtheDETsuitNOUNisAUXagreeableADJ,PUNCTorCCONJreturnedVERBifSCONJitPRONisVERBnotPART.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IfifSCONJ_4 comesmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 proposaldet
3proposalproposalNOUNNumber=Sing4 comesnsubj
4comescomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 sendsadvcl
5fromfromADP_9 fathercase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 girldet
7girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing9 fathernmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 girlcase
9fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing4 comesobl
10,,PUNCT_4 comespunct
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 sendsnsubj
12sendssendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
13anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 assagaidet
14assagaiassagaiNOUNNumber=Sing12 sendsobj
15,,PUNCT_18 acceptedpunct
16whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel18 acceptednsubj:pass
17isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 acceptedaux:pass
18acceptedacceptVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 assagaiacl:relcl
19ififSCONJ_23 agreeablemark
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 suitdet
21suitsuitNOUNNumber=Sing23 agreeablensubj
22isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 agreeablecop
23agreeableagreeableADJDegree=Pos18 acceptedadvcl
24,,PUNCT_26 returnedpunct
25ororCCONJ_26 returnedcc
26returnedreturnVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 sendsconj
27ififSCONJ_29 ismark
28ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 isnsubj
29isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 returnedadvcl
30notnotPARTPolarity=Neg29 isadvmod
31..PUNCT_12 sendspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1come a condition, not said to happenpresentthe proposalfrom the girl's fathervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from father=Initial_Location
2sendpresentmessengera assagaivn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assagai=Theme
3acceptpresent · passivea assagaivn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4is a condition, not said to happenpresentthe suitagreeable propertytree rules
5returnparticiplemessenger not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6not be a condition, not said to happenpresentassagaivn 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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