Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 20
If the girl’s father is a rich man three oxen are slaughtered, and the ntonjane is kept up for twelve days.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, slaughter, keep up · To what, where: rich man, three oxen, ntonjane
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 man | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slaughtered | advcl |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 oxen | nummod |
| 11 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 slaughtered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 slaughtered | aux:pass |
| 13 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kept | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ntonjane | det |
| 17 | ntonjane | ntonjane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kept | aux:pass |
| 19 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 slaughtered | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 kept | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 22 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 days | nummod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kept | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 slaughtered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | the girl's father | a rich man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slaughter | present · passive | three oxen | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | keep up | present · passive | the ntonjane | day | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
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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