Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 14

The man went always to the house of the other wife, and so it happened that Tangalimlibo was grown to be a young woman when her father first saw her.

Who acts: man, it, young woman, father · What happens: go, happen, grow, be, see · To what, where: house, Tangalimlibo, young woman

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 (man, it, young woman, father), 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	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 wife	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wife	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wife	amod
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 happened	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 happened	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happened	nsubj
16	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 grown	mark
18	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 grown	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grown	aux:pass
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 happened	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	25 woman	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 woman	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grown	obl:agent
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 saw	advmod
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saw	nsubj
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 saw	advmod
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grown	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the man		the house of the other wife	always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	happen	past	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past · passive	a young woman	Tangalimlibo			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive		a young woman			tree rules
5	see	past	Tangalimlibo's father	Tangalimlibo		first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 Tangalimlibo., sentence 14

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 14