Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 36

The hair of the tail was needed, the doctor had made a charm of it and hung it round the woman’s neck, and she had thereafter given birth to a son.

Who acts: woman · What happens: need, make, hang, give · To what, where: hair, doctor, charm, birth, son

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hair	det
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tail	det
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hair	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 needed	aux:pass
7	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doctor	det
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 needed	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 charm	det
14	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 charm	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hung	cc
18	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hung	obj
20	round	round	ADP	_	24 neck	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 neck	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 woman	case
24	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 given	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 given	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 given	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 given	aux
29	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	30 given	advmod
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 needed	conj
31	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 given	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 son	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 son	det
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 given	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 needed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	need	past · passive		the hair of the tail			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	make	past · perfect · passive		the doctor		a charm of hair obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary charm=Product
3	hang	past		charm		round the woman's neck	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	give	past · perfect	woman	birth	a son	thereafter property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 36