Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 33

B thereupon applied to him for a heifer, the hair of the tail of which was needed by the doctor of the clan to make a charm to put round the woman’s neck.

Who acts: B, doctor · What happens: apply, need, make, put · To what, where: husband, tail, charm

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 (B, doctor), 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	B	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applied	nsubj
2	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 applied	advmod
3	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 applied	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 heifer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heifer	det
8	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hair	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hair	det
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heifer	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tail	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tail	det
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hair	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 needed	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 needed	aux:pass
18	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tail	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 doctor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 doctor	det
21	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 needed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 clan	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clan	det
24	clan	clan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 doctor	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 needed	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 charm	det
28	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 put	mark
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 charm	acl
31	round	round	ADP	_	35 neck	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 woman	det
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 neck	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 woman	case
35	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 applied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	apply	past	B		husband	for a heifer; thereupon property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for heifer=Eventuality
2	need	past · passive	the doctor of the clan	the tail			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	the doctor of the clan not said here	a charm			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charm=Product
4	put	to-infinitive	the doctor of the clan not said here	a charm not said here		round the woman's neck	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 33