Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 151
There was great joy among those people when they took her home to her husband.
Who acts: great joy, shaking · What happens: be, take · To what, where: home, husband
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 (great joy, shaking), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joy | amod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 took | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 husband | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | great joy | there | among that people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among people=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | shaking | joy's home | joy's husband | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to husband=Destination |
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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