Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 23
Hence it may easily happen that persons may mix much with Kaffirs without even suspecting that they have in their possession a rich fund of legendary lore.
Who acts: it, persons · What happens: happen, mix, suspect, have, possess, fund · To what, where: rich fund, possession, legendary lore
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 (it, persons), 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 | Hence | hence | ADV | _ | 5 happen | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 mix | mark |
| 7 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mix | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mix | aux |
| 9 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happen | advcl |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 mix | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Kaffirs | case |
| 12 | Kaffirs | kaffir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mix | obl |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 suspecting | mark |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 suspecting | advmod |
| 15 | suspecting | suspect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 mix | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 suspecting | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 possession | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 possession | nmod:poss |
| 21 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suspecting | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fund | det |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fund | amod |
| 24 | fund | fund | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suspecting | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lore | case |
| 26 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lore | amod |
| 27 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fund | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | may | it | easily, hence property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mix | may | persons | with Kaffirs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with kaffir=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | suspect | gerund | persons not said here | a rich fund of legendary lore | persons's possession | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fund=Attribute | |||
| 4 | have | present | persons = person | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | possess | persons = person | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | fund | legendary lore | nom fund «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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