Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 25
Then he sent some of his men with forty cattle to take his daughter to a distant country, where she was to remain far away from him.
Who acts: chief, daughter · What happens: send, take, be · To what, where: some, daughter, distant country
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, daughter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cattle | case |
| 9 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cattle | nummod |
| 10 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 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 | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 17 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remain | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 remain | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remain | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 remain | cop |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 remain | mark |
| 24 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | conj |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 remain | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 away | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | chief | some of chief's men | then | with forty cattle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | chief not said here | chief's daughter | a distant country | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | daughter | away, remain property | 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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