Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 1
There was once a man living in a certain place, who had two daughters big enough to be married.
Who acts: man, certain place · What happens: be, live, have, marry · To what, where: certain place, two daughters
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, certain place), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 daughters | nummod |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughters | amod |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 big | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 married | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 married | aux:pass |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 big | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a man | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | a man not said here | a certain place | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a certain place | two daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | a certain place not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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