Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 21
On the thirteenth day the young woman comes out of the house where she has all the time been living apart from her family.
Who acts: young woman, Ntonjane · What happens: come out, have, live · To what, where: house
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 (young woman, Ntonjane), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 has | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 house | acl:relcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 time | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 living | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 living | aux |
| 20 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 has | parataxis |
| 21 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 20 living | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 family | nmod:poss |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 apart | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | the young woman | the house | day | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result | |||
| 2 | have | present | Ntonjane | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | participle · progressive | time | apart property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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