Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 6
When a Kaffir woman is married, her husband’s parents give her a new name, by which she is known to his family ever after.
Who acts: parents · What happens: marry, give, know · To what, where: Kaffir woman, new name, woman
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 married | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | compound |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 give | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 parents | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 husband | case |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 name | amod |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 known | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 known | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 known | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 known | aux:pass |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 give | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 family | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 family | nmod:poss |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 known | obl |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 after | advmod |
| 27 | after | after | ADV | _ | 22 known | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present · passive | a Kaffir woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | give | present | woman's husband's parents | a new name | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | present · passive | woman | ever | to husband's family; which obl; after property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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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