Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 139
The crocodile said to the boy: “You must send your sister for the purpose of being married to me.”
Who acts: crocodile, boy · What happens: say, send, marry · To what, where: boy, sister, purpose, crocodile · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crocodile, boy), 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 crocodile | det |
| 2 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 boy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 send | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 send | punct |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 send | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 send | aux |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 send | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 purpose | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 purpose | det |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 send | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 married | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 married | aux:pass |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 purpose | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 married | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 send | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the crocodile | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send in a quote | must | the boy = boy | your sister | for the purpose | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | |||
| 3 | marry in a quote | gerund · passive | the purpose not said here | the crocodile = crocodile | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to i=Co-Patient |
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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