Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 4
The marriage of a young Kaffir woman is arranged by her father or guardian, and she is not legally supposed to be consulted in the choice of a husband.
Who acts: father · What happens: arrange, not suppose, consult, marry · To what, where: marriage, dance, choice, young Kaffir woman
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 (father), 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 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 6 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 woman | compound |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marriage | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 arranged | aux:pass |
| 9 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arranged | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 guardian | cc |
| 14 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 supposed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 supposed | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 supposed | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 supposed | advmod |
| 20 | legally | legally | ADV | _ | 21 supposed | advmod |
| 21 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 arranged | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 consulted | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 consulted | aux:pass |
| 24 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 supposed | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 choice | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 choice | det |
| 27 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consulted | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 husband | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 husband | det |
| 30 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 choice | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | present · passive | woman's father or guardian | the marriage of a young Kaffir woman | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not suppose | present · passive | dance | legally property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | consult | to-infinitive · passive | the choice of a husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | marry | a young Kaffir woman | nom marriage «state 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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