Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 8
The eldest replied: “I wish to be the wife of a chief, my father.”
Who acts: I · What happens: reply, wish, be · To what, where: 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 (I), 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 | 3 replied | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 replied | amod |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wife | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wife | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wife | det |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wish | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the wife and my father | of a chief; my father conj | 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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