Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 4
What recommendation, for instance, has the girl in this story to the favour of the young chief?
Who acts: recommendation · What happens: recommendation, have, favour · To what, where: girl, story, young chief
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 (recommendation), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 recommendation | nsubj |
| 2 | recommendation | recommendation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 instance | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 instance | case |
| 5 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recommendation | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 recommendation | punct |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 favour | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 favour | det |
| 15 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 story | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chief | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chief | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chief | amod |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 favour | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommendation | What nsubj; instance conj | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | recommendation and instance | the girl | this story to the favour of the young chief | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | |||
| 3 | favour | the young chief | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=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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