Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 7

The man went home and said to his two daughters: “Which of you wishes to be the wife of a chief?”

Who acts: man · What happens: go, say, wish, be · To what, where: two daughters, wife · 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 (man), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 daughters	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughters	nmod:poss
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 daughters	nummod
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 wishes	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 wishes	punct
13	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wishes	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 Which	obl
16	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	20 wife	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 wife	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wife	det
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wishes	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 chief	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chief	det
23	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wife	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 wishes	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 wishes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the man			home property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here		man's two daughters		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient
3	wish in a quote	present				Which of you nsubj	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		the wife		of a chief	tree rules

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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 7