Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 35
On the following morning at daylight the ox is killed, when a portion of the meat is taken by the bride’s party, and the remainder is left for the people of the kraal.
Who acts: party, people · What happens: follow, kill, take, leave · To what, where: ox, portion, remainder
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, people), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 daylight | case |
| 6 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ox | det |
| 8 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | aux:pass |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 taken | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 portion | det |
| 14 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 meat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 meat | det |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 portion | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 killed | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 party | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bride | det |
| 22 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 party | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 bride | case |
| 24 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 left | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 left | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 remainder | det |
| 28 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | aux:pass |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 killed | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 people | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 people | det |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 left | obl:agent |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kraal | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 kraal | det |
| 36 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 people | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | kill | present · passive | the ox | morning | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | present · passive | the bride's party | a portion of the meat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | present · passive | the people of the kraal | the remainder | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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