Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 14

His wife bore another child, which was a boy without arms and without legs, therefore he was called Simbukumbukwana.

Who acts: wife, child · What happens: bear, be, call · To what, where: child, boy, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, child), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bore	nsubj
3	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bore	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 boy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 boy	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 child	appos
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 arms	case
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 boy	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 legs	cc
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 legs	case
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 arms	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	20 called	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 called	aux:pass
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bore	parataxis
21	Simbukumbukwana	Simbukumbukwana	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	past	man's wife	another child		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	is a	past	another child	a boy	without arms and legs	tree rules
3	call	past · passive		man	Simbukumbukwana xcomp; therefore property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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 14

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Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 14