Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 186
The priest and witch-finder professes also to have the power of making rain, and of causing the warriors of his clan to be invulnerable in battle.
Who acts: priest, power, warriors · What happens: profess, have, make, cause, be · To what, where: power, rain, warriors, battle
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 (priest, power, warriors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 professes | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 finder | cc |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finder | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 witch | punct |
| 6 | finder | finder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 priest | conj |
| 7 | professes | profess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 have | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 professes | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 power | det |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 making | mark |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 power | acl |
| 15 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 causing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 causing | cc |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 causing | mark |
| 19 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 professes | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 warriors | det |
| 21 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 causing | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 clan | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 clan | nmod:poss |
| 24 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 warriors | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 invulnerable | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 invulnerable | cop |
| 27 | invulnerable | invulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 causing | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 battle | case |
| 29 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 invulnerable | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 professes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | profess | present | the priest and witch finder | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the priest and witch finder not said here | the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the power not said here | rain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product | ||||
| 4 | cause | gerund | the priest and witch finder not said here | the warriors of person's clan | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition warrior=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | the warriors of person's clan not said here | battle | invulnerable property | tree rules |
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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