Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 34

They will sit, however, with exemplary patience, for days together, to hear all the details of a case, and, where bribery is impossible, their sentences are usually in accordance with strict justice.

Who acts: judges, bribery, sentences · What happens: sit, hear, be, detail, sentence · To what, where: details, accordance, case

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 (judges, bribery, sentences), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	3 sit	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 patience	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 patience	case
8	exemplary	exemplary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 patience	amod
9	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 days	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 together	obl:unmarked
13	together	together	ADV	_	3 sit	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hear	mark
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 details	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 details	det
19	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hear	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 case	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 case	det
22	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 details	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 impossible	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 impossible	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 impossible	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 impossible	advmod
27	bribery	bribery	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 impossible	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 impossible	cop
29	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hear	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 accordance	punct
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sentences	nmod:poss
32	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 accordance	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 accordance	cop
34	usually	usually	ADV	_	36 accordance	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 accordance	case
36	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 impossible	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 justice	case
38	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 justice	amod
39	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 accordance	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	future	judges = judge			with exemplary patience; however, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	to-infinitive	judges = judge not said here	all details of a case			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus
3	is	present	bribery			impossible property	tree rules
4	is	present	judges's sentences		accordance	with strict justice; usually property	tree rules
5	detail			a case			nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	sentence		judges = judge				nom sentence «communication 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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 34