Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 198
In the division of labour the cultivation of the ground falls to the woman’s share, as does also the collection of firewood, and the thatching of the huts.
Who acts: cultivation, woman · What happens: fall, do, cultivate, share · To what, where: thatching, division, collection, ground
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 (cultivation, woman), 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 division | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 division | det |
| 3 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 falls | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 labour | case |
| 5 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 division | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cultivation | det |
| 7 | cultivation | cultivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 falls | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cultivation | nmod |
| 11 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 share | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 share | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 16 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 falls | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 does | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 does | mark |
| 19 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 falls | conj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 collection | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 collection | det |
| 22 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 does | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 firewood | case |
| 24 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 collection | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thatching | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thatching | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 thatching | det |
| 28 | thatching | thatching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 falls | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 huts | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 huts | det |
| 31 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 thatching | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 falls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | the cultivation of the ground | the thatching of the huts | the division of labour | to the woman's share | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in division=Location | ||
| 2 | do | present | the cultivation of the ground not said here | the collection of firewood | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cultivate | the ground | nom cultivation «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | share | the woman | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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