Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 37
The heifer could not be returned after being so used.
What happens: not return, use · To what, where: heifer
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: 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 heifer | det |
| 2 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 returned | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 returned | aux:pass |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 used | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 used | advmod |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 returned | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | could · passive | the heifer | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | use | gerund · passive | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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