Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 185
In olden times the person whom the witch-finder pronounced guilty was liable to confiscation of property, torture, and even death.
Who acts: witch finder · What happens: pronounce, be, confiscate · To what, where: guilty, property
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 (witch finder), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | appos |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 liable | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 finder | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finder | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 witch | punct |
| 10 | finder | finder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 liable | nsubj |
| 11 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 finder | acl |
| 12 | guilty | guilty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pronounced | obj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 liable | cop |
| 14 | liable | liable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 confiscation | case |
| 16 | confiscation | confiscation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 liable | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 property | case |
| 18 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 confiscation | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 torture | punct |
| 20 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 confiscation | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 death | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 death | cc |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 death | advmod |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | participle | the witch finder not said here | guilty | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the witch finder | to confiscation of property and torture; the person advmod; liable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | confiscate | property | nom confiscation «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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