Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 7
Yet instances are not wanting of girls being compelled against their wishes to marry old men, who have already perhaps five or six wives.
Who acts: instances, old men · What happens: not want, compel, marry, have, wish · To what, where: old men, five wives
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 (instances, old men), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 wanting | cc |
| 2 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wanting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wanting | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wanting | advmod |
| 5 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 girls | case |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 compelled | obl |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 compelled | aux:pass |
| 9 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wanting | ccomp |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 wishes | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 compelled | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 compelled | advcl |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 men | acl:relcl |
| 20 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 five | advmod |
| 21 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 five | advmod |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 wives | nummod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 six | cc |
| 24 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 five | conj |
| 25 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · progressive | instances | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | compel | gerund · passive | instances not said here | of girls; against instances's wishes | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | instances not said here | old men | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | old men | five wives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wish | instances = instance | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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