Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 176
This superstition influences all his acts and gives a tone of seriousness to his character.
Who acts: superstition · What happens: influence, give, act, intonate · To what, where: acts, tone, character, seriousness
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: who acts (superstition), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 superstition | det |
| 2 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 influences | nsubj |
| 3 | influences | influence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 acts | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 acts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 influences | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gives | cc |
| 8 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 influences | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tone | det |
| 10 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 seriousness | case |
| 12 | seriousness | seriousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tone | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 character | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 character | nmod:poss |
| 15 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 influences | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | influence | present | this superstition | superstition's acts | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | present | this superstition not said here | a tone of seriousness | superstition's character | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tone=Theme to character=Recipient | |||
| 3 | act | superstition | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | intonate | seriousness | nom tone «communication 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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