Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 109
Then he called those young men who were his chosen friends to accompany him.
Who acts: Mangangezulu · What happens: call, choose, be, accompany · To what, where: young men, chosen friends, Mangangezulu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mangangezulu), 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 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 men | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 friends | obl |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 friends | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 friends | amod |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 men | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 accompany | mark |
| 13 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 accompany | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Mangangezulu | that young men | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||
| 2 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | Mangangezulu's chosen friends | that young men obl; Mangangezulu nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | accompany | to-infinitive | Mangangezulu not said here | Mangangezulu | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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