Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 20
Two young men were then sent back with him to see what it was, one of these happening to be the girl’s brother.
Who acts: skin · What happens: send back, see, be, happen · To what, where: Two young men, one, brother
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 (skin), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sent | advmod |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 what | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 these | case |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 one | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 brother | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 brother | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 girl | case |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 happening | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send back | past · passive | Two young men | then | with chief | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | skin | one | of these | tree rules | |||
| 4 | happen | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the girl's brother | the girl nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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