Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 7
The girl in the meantime is kept secluded in the house of an aunt, or other female relative, and her father does not see her.
Who acts: father · What happens: keep, not see · To what, where: girl, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 meantime | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meantime | det |
| 5 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | secluded | secluded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 aunt | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 aunt | det |
| 14 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 relative | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 relative | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 relative | amod |
| 18 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 relative | amod |
| 19 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 see | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 see | advmod |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kept | parataxis |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | the girl in the meantime | the house of a aunt or other female relative | secluded property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | not see | present · do-support | girl's father | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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