Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 34

She was loved very much by her husband, because she was pretty and industrious; only this thing was observed of her, that she never went out in the daytime.

Who acts: husband, Tangalimlibo · What happens: love, be, observe, not go out · To what, where: Tangalimlibo, thing, daytime

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 (husband, Tangalimlibo), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loved	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	aux:pass
3	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	3 loved	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 husband	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pretty	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 pretty	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pretty	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pretty	cop
13	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	3 loved	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 industrious	cc
15	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pretty	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 observed	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	19 thing	advmod
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 thing	det
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 observed	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 observed	aux:pass
21	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loved	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 observed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 went	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 went	advmod
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 observed	conj
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 daytime	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 daytime	det
32	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past · passive	Tangalimlibo's husband	Tangalimlibo			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	is	past	Tangalimlibo			pretty property	tree rules
3	be		Tangalimlibo not said here				tree rules
4	observe	past · passive		this thing		of Tangalimlibo	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	not go out	past	Tangalimlibo		the daytime	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 34