Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 71

Her husband was absent, and the result of her being “smelt out” was that no one would enter her hut, share food with her, or so much as speak to her.

Who acts: husband, one · What happens: be, share · To what, where: food · Speech: someone speaks here

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, one), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 absent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 absent	cop
4	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 result	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 result	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 result	det
8	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 absent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 result	conj
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 smelt	cop
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 smelt	punct
13	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 her	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 smelt	compound:prt
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 smelt	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 enter	cop
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 enter	mark
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enter	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 enter	aux
21	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 smelt	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hut	nmod:poss
23	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enter	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 share	punct
25	share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 smelt	conj
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 share	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 share	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 much	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 much	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 share	obj
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 speak	case
34	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 much	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 speak	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 absent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman's husband		the result of woman obl; absent property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	gerund			smelt property	tree rules
3	is	would · past	no one		woman's hut obj; enter property	tree rules
4	share	infinitive		food	with woman	tree rules

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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 71