Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 32

Thus with them Satan—of whom they had no conception before the advent of Europeans—is now the prompter to evil, and morals are drawn that never could have entered their heads in days of old.

Who acts: changes, prompter · What happens: have, be, draw, not enter · To what, where: conception, prompter, morals, heads

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 (changes, prompter), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 Satan	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Satan	nsubj
4	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Thus	obl
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 whom	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Thus	parataxis
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whom	acl:relcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 conception	det
11	conception	conception	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 advent	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 advent	det
14	advent	advent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Europeans	case
16	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 advent	nmod
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 prompter	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 prompter	cop
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 prompter	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 prompter	det
21	prompter	prompter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whom	appos
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 evil	case
23	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prompter	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drawn	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drawn	cc
26	morals	moral	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 drawn	nsubj:pass
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 drawn	aux:pass
28	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 prompter	acl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 entered	mark
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 entered	advmod
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 entered	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 entered	aux
33	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 drawn	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 heads	nmod:poss
35	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 entered	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 days	case
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 entered	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 old	case
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 days	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	changes = change	no conception	before the advent of Europeans		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conception=Patient
2	is a	present		the prompter	now	to evil	tree rules
3	draw	present · passive	the prompter not said here	morals			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not enter	could · perfect	the prompter not said here	changes's heads	day		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination

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 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 32