Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 33

Then he went to her father, and some of the men went also to tell how the milk had cured the girl.

Who acts: chief, some · What happens: go, tell, cure · To what, where: milk · Speech: someone speaks here

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, some), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 went	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 some	nmod
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	also	also	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 cured	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 milk	det
19	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cured	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cured	aux
21	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tell	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girl	det
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cured	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	chief		then	to girl's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	go	past	some of the men				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	some of the men not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cure	past · perfect · passive		the milk		the girl obj	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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 33