Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 58
The failure to get the exchange effected is still attributed by the relatives of the drowned girl to the absence of one skilful to work with medicines.
Who acts: relatives, exchange · What happens: get, affect, attribute, drown, work · To what, where: exchange, failure
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 (relatives, exchange), 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 failure | det |
| 2 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 failure | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 exchange | det |
| 6 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | effected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 get | xcomp |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 attributed | aux:pass |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 attributed | advmod |
| 10 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 relatives | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 relatives | det |
| 13 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 attributed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 relatives | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 absence | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 absence | det |
| 20 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attributed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 skilful | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 skilful | nummod |
| 23 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 absence | amod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 work | mark |
| 25 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 skilful | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 medicines | case |
| 27 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 work | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 attributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the relatives of the drowned girl not said here | the exchange | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | affect | participle | the exchange not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | attribute | present · passive | the relatives of the drowned girl | the failure | still | to the absence | tree rules | ||
| 4 | drown | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | the relatives of the drowned girl not said here | with medicines | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with medicine=Co-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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