Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 26
Murder and assaults are punished in this manner.
What happens: punish · To what, where: Murder, manner
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: 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 | Murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 assaults | cc |
| 3 | assaults | assault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Murder | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 punished | aux:pass |
| 5 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 manner | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 manner | det |
| 8 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 punished | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 punished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | present · passive | Murder and assaults | this manner | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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