Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 100
The mother of the chief took millet and gave to the bride, saying: “You must prepare food for your husband.
Who acts: mother, You · What happens: take, give, say, prepare · To what, where: millet, bride, food · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, You), 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 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 chief | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | nmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bride | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bride | det |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gave | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 prepare | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 prepare | punct |
| 17 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 prepare | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 prepare | aux |
| 19 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prepare | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 husband | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 husband | nmod:poss |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prepare | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the mother of the chief | millet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the mother of the chief not said here | the bride | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bride=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the mother of the chief not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | prepare in a quote | must | You | food | for your husband | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Product for husband=Beneficiary |
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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