Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 147

They said to her: “Whom do you choose to be your husband?”

Who acts: boys, woman · What happens: say, choose, be · To what, where: woman, husband · 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 (boys, woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 choose	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 choose	punct
7	Whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 choose	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 choose	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 choose	nsubj
10	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	14 husband	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 husband	cop
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 choose	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 choose	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	boys = boy		woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	choose in a quote	present · do-support	woman			Whom obj	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
3	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	woman not said here	your husband		your nmod:poss	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, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 147

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 147