Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 199
A man who meddles with work of this kind is regarded as an intruder into a domain not his own.
Who acts: man, kind · What happens: meddle, regard, work · To what, where: man, domain
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 (man, kind), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 regarded | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 meddles | nsubj |
| 4 | meddles | meddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meddles | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kind | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 kind | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 regarded | aux:pass |
| 11 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 intruder | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 intruder | det |
| 14 | intruder | intruder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 regarded | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 domain | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 domain | det |
| 17 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 regarded | obl |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 own | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 domain | amod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meddle | present | a man | with work of this kind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | regard | present · passive | a man | a domain | as a intruder | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as intruder=Value | |||
| 3 | work | this kind | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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