Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 1

There was a man whose wife had no children, so that he was much dissatisfied.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: be, have · To what, where: children

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	acl:relcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dissatisfied	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 dissatisfied	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dissatisfied	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dissatisfied	cop
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 dissatisfied	advmod
16	dissatisfied	dissatisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	wife	no children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	is	past	man			dissatisfied 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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 1