Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 37

There were left at his home with this woman only her father-in-law, her mother-in-law, and a girl who nursed the little child.

Who acts: girl · What happens: leave, nurse · To what, where: home, little child

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 (girl), 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	3 left	expl
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 home	nmod:poss
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 woman	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
10	only	only	ADV	_	16 law	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 law	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 law	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 law	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 law	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 in	punct
16	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 law	conj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 law	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 law	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 in	punct
23	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mother	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 girl	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 girl	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 girl	det
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	parataxis
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 nursed	nsubj
29	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 girl	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 child	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 child	amod
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nursed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive				man's home; there		with this woman; Tangalimlibo's law father and Tangalimlibo's mother in law parataxis; a girl parataxis	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: at home=Location
2	nurse	past	a girl		the little child				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 37