Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 30

Sometimes she is returned by her husband to her parents, a proceeding commonly adopted when she has a marriageable sister who can be given to him in exchange.

Who acts: husband, proceeding, woman · What happens: return, adopt, have, give · To what, where: woman, marriageable sister, husband, exchange

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, proceeding, woman), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 returned	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 returned	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	aux:pass
4	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 husband	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 parents	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 husband	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 adopted	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 proceeding	det
13	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 adopted	nsubj
14	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	15 adopted	advmod
15	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	conj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 has	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 adopted	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sister	det
20	marriageable	marriageable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sister	amod
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 given	nsubj:pass
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 given	aux:pass
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sister	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 given	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 exchange	case
29	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	present · passive	woman's husband to woman's parents	woman			sometimes property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	adopt	past	a proceeding				commonly property	tree rules
3	have	present	woman	a marriageable sister				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
4	give	can · passive		a marriageable sister	husband	exchange		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 30