Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 19
She went alone, no bridal party accompanying her, to present herself at the village of the chief who wanted a wife.
Who acts: girl, bridal party, chief · What happens: go, accompany, present, want · To what, where: bridal party, girl, village, wife
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 (girl, bridal party, chief), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 party | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 party | det |
| 6 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 party | amod |
| 7 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | accompanying | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 party | acl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 accompanying | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 present | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 present | mark |
| 12 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 present | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 present | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chief | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chief | det |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 village | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wanted | nsubj |
| 21 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 chief | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wanted | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | girl | no bridal party | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | accompany | gerund | no bridal party not said here | girl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | present | to-infinitive | girl | the village of the chief | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | past | the chief | a wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=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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