Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 31
Only two kinds of punishment are known: fines and death.
What happens: know · To what, where: two kinds
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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kinds | nummod |
| 3 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 punishment | case |
| 5 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kinds | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 fines | punct |
| 9 | fines | fine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 known | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 death | cc |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fines | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | two kinds of punishment | fines and death obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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