Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 25
When the young chief went home he sent a message to the father of the girl that he must send her to him to be married.
Who acts: young chief, chief · What happens: go, send, marry · To what, where: message, father, girl, man
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 (young chief, chief), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chief | amod |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | advcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 message | det |
| 10 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 message | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 send | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 send | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 send | aux |
| 20 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 message | acl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 send | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 send | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 married | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 married | aux:pass |
| 26 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 send | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the young chief | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | chief | a message | the father of the girl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to father=Destination | |||
| 3 | send | must | chief | girl | man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | chief not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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