Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 17
About this time the chief was killing an ox on account of his daughter, and so he sent a young man to the forest to get pieces of wood with which to peg out the skin.
Who acts: chief · What happens: kill, send, get, peg out, account · To what, where: ox, account, young man, forest, pieces, skin
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killing | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 killing | aux |
| 7 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ox | det |
| 9 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killing | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 account | case |
| 11 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killing | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 account | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 sent | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 killing | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 get | mark |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | advcl |
| 28 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 get | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wood | case |
| 30 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pieces | nmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 peg | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 peg | mark |
| 34 | peg | peg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wood | acl:relcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 peg | compound:prt |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 skin | det |
| 37 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 peg | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 killing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · progressive | the chief | a ox | account of chief's daughter | time | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | ||
| 2 | send | past | chief | a young man | the forest | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to forest=Destination | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | chief not said here | pieces of wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | peg out | to-infinitive | chief not said here | the skin | with wood | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skin=Patient with which=Instrument | |||
| 5 | account | chief's daughter | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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