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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 12

“I will keep my daughter in the house till my husband comes; he will surely love me when he sees I have such a beautiful child.”

Who acts: woman, husband · What happens: keep, come, love, see, have · To what, where: daughter, house, woman, beautiful child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, husband), 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

punctnsubjauxnmod:possobjcasedetoblmarknmod:possnsubjadvclpunctnsubjauxadvmodconjobjmarknsubjadvclnsubjccompdet:predetdetamodobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTIPRONwillAUXkeepVERBmyPRONdaughterNOUNinADPtheDEThouseNOUNtillSCONJmyPRONhusbandNOUNcomesVERB;PUNCThePRONwillAUXsurelyADVloveVERBmePRONwhenSCONJhePRONseesVERBIPRONhaveVERBsuchDETaDETbeautifulADJchildNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_4 keeppunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 keepnsubj
3willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin4 keepaux
4keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 daughternmod:poss
6daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing4 keepobj
7ininADP_9 housecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 housedet
9househouseNOUNNumber=Sing4 keepobl
10tilltillSCONJ_13 comesmark
11mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 husbandnmod:poss
12husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing13 comesnsubj
13comescomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 keepadvcl
14;;PUNCT_18 lovepunct
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 lovensubj
16willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin18 loveaux
17surelysurelyADV_18 loveadvmod
18loveloveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 keepconj
19meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 loveobj
20whenwhenSCONJ_22 seesmark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 seesnsubj
22seesseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 loveadvcl
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 havensubj
24havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 seesccomp
25suchsuchDETPronType=Ind28 childdet:predet
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 childdet
27beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos28 childamod
28childchildNOUNNumber=Sing24 haveobj
29..PUNCT_4 keeppunct
30”"PUNCT_4 keeppunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1keep in a quotefuturewomanmy daughterthe housevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in house=Location
2come in a quotepresentmy husbandvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3love in a quotefuturehusbandwomansurely propertyvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4see in a quotepresenthusbandvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5have in a quotepresentwomansuch beautiful childvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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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