Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 200
The females look upon it as pertaining to them, just as in England they look upon housework.
Who acts: females · What happens: look, pertain · To what, where: females
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 (females), 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 females | det |
| 2 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 pertaining | mark |
| 7 | pertaining | pertain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 look | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pertaining | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 look | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 England | case |
| 14 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 as | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 look | nsubj |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | conj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 housework | case |
| 18 | housework | housework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the females | upon domain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pertain | gerund | the females not said here | females = female | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | present | females = female | upon housework | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon housework=Theme |
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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