Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 145
The crocodile gave one of his daughters to be the wife of the young man.
Who acts: crocodile · What happens: give, be · To what, where: one, wife
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), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 daughters | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wife | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wife | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wife | det |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the crocodile | one of rock's daughters | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the crocodile not said here | the wife | of the young man | 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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