Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 15

Is it not so that when a girl goes to present herself to her husband she should be accompanied by others?

Who acts: it, others · What happens: not be, present, accompany · To what, where: girl, husband

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 (it, others), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 goes	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 goes	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 goes	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 goes	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 present	mark
11	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 goes	xcomp
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 present	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 husband	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 husband	nmod:poss
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 present	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 accompanied	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 accompanied	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 accompanied	aux:pass
19	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 husband	acl:relcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 others	case
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 accompanied	obl:agent
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	it			a girl nsubj; go property	tree rules
2	present	to-infinitive		girl	girl's husband		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to husband=Recipient
3	accompany	should · passive	others	girl			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 15