Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 113
They milk the cows, take charge of the dairy, and will not permit a woman even to touch a milksack.
What happens: take, not permit, touch, charge · To what, where: charge, woman, milksack, milk cows, dairy
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cows | nsubj |
| 2 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cows | compound |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cows | det |
| 4 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cows | parataxis |
| 7 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dairy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dairy | det |
| 10 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 charge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 permit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 permit | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 permit | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 permit | advmod |
| 15 | permit | permit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 permit | obj |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 touch | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 touch | mark |
| 20 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 permit | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 milksack | det |
| 22 | milksack | milksack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 touch | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | charge of the dairy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not permit | future | a woman | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive | a milksack | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme milksack=Co-Theme | |||||
| 5 | charge | the dairy | nom charge «act 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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