Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 34
The party has also an ox provided by the same person, as his contribution towards the marriage feast.
Who acts: party, husband · What happens: have, provide, contribute · To what, where: ox
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 (party, husband), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 has | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ox | det |
| 6 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ox | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 person | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 person | amod |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provided | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 contribution | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 contribution | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 contribution | nmod:poss |
| 15 | contribution | contribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provided | obl |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 feast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feast | det |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feast | compound |
| 19 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 contribution | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the party | a ox | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient | ||||
| 2 | provide | participle | a ox not said here | by the same person; as husband's contribution towards the marriage feast | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | contribute | husband | towards the marriage feast | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent towards=obl |
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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