Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 40
The government of this is entrusted to him as soon as he is full grown, so that while his brother is still a child he has opportunities of increasing his power.
Who acts: brother, portion, opportunities · What happens: entrust, grow, be, have, increase · To what, where: government, portion, child, opportunities, power
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 (brother, portion, opportunities), 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 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 government | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 6 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entrusted | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 entrusted | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 grown | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grown | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | aux:pass |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grown | amod |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 soon | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 has | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 has | mark |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 child | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 child | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 child | cop |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 child | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | advcl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 entrusted | conj |
| 28 | opportunities | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 has | obj |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 increasing | mark |
| 30 | increasing | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 opportunities | acl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 power | nmod:poss |
| 32 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 increasing | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entrusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | present · passive | the government of this | portion | soon property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | grow | present · passive | portion | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | portion's brother | a child | still | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | portion | opportunities | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient | ||||
| 5 | increase | gerund | opportunities not said here | portion's power | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer power=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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