Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 18

It is with a view of letting the people we have chosen to call Kaffirs describe themselves in their own words, that these stories have been collected and printed.

Who acts: description, view, we, people · What happens: be, let, choose, call, describe, collect · To what, where: people, Kaffirs, own words, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (description, view, we, people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 view	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 view	cop
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 view	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 view	det
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 letting	mark
7	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 view	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 describe	nsubj
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 chosen	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 chosen	aux
12	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 people	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 call	mark
14	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 chosen	xcomp
15	Kaffirs	kaffir	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 call	obj
16	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 view	parataxis
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 describe	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 words	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 words	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 describe	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 collected	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 collected	mark
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 stories	det
25	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 collected	nsubj:pass
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 collected	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 collected	aux:pass
28	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 describe	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 printed	cc
30	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 collected	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 view	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	description			with a view	tree rules
2	let	gerund	a view not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	choose	present · perfect	we	the people not said here			tree rules
4	call	to-infinitive	we not said here	Kaffirs			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kaffir=Recipient
5	describe	present	the people	PEOPLE	PEOPLE's own words		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
6	collect	present · perfect · passive		this stories			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	print	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	word		PEOPLE				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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, Opening, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 18