Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 4

The man went home and selected a calf without horns or tail, which he took to the wise woman.

Who acts: man, horns · What happens: go, select, take · To what, where: calf

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, horns), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 selected	cc
6	selected	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 calf	det
8	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selected	obj
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 horns	case
10	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 selected	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 tail	cc
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horns	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 took	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 horns	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 woman	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the man		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	select	past	the man not said here	a calf	without horns or tail	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme
3	take	past	horns or tail		to the wise woman result; man nsubj	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to woman=Result

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 4