Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 35
So the old chief agreed to let him marry the girl, and she became his great wife, and was loved by him very dearly.
Who acts: old chief, chief, girl · What happens: agree, let, marry, become, love · To what, where: chief, girl, great wife
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 (old chief, chief, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chief | amod |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wife | amod |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 loved | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 loved | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 loved | aux:pass |
| 22 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 became | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 loved | obl |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 dearly | advmod |
| 26 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 22 loved | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | the old chief | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old chief not said here | chief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | infinitive | chief not said here | the girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past | girl | chief's great wife | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | love | past · passive | chief | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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