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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 love | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 love | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 love | aux |
| 17 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 18 love | advmod |
| 18 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keep | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 love | obj |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 sees | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sees | nsubj |
| 22 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 love | advcl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sees | ccomp |
| 25 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 child | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 child | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 child | amod |
| 28 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | future | woman | my daughter | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | my husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | future | husband | woman | surely property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | woman | such beautiful child | vn 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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