Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 82

They know of no other periods in reckoning time than the day and the lunar month, and can describe events only as happening before or after some remarkable occurrence, such as the death of a chief.

Who acts: details, chief · What happens: know, describe, happen, die · To what, where: events, remarkable occurrence

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 (details, chief), 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	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 periods	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 periods	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 periods	amod
6	periods	period	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 know	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	reckoning	reckoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	compound
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 periods	nmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 month	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 month	det
15	lunar	lunar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 month	amod
16	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 describe	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 describe	cc
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 describe	aux
20	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 know	parataxis
21	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 describe	obj
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 happening	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 happening	mark
24	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 describe	advcl
25	before	before	ADP	_	30 occurrence	case
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 after	cc
27	after	after	ADP	_	25 before	conj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 occurrence	det
29	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 occurrence	amod
30	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 happening	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 death	punct
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	35 death	case
33	as	as	ADP	_	32 such	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 death	det
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 occurrence	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 chief	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 chief	det
38	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 death	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	details = detail			of no other periods in reckoning time than the day and the lunar month	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of period=Stimulus
2	describe	can		events			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme
3	happen	gerund			some remarkable occurrence		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before occurrence=Location
4	die		a chief				nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 82

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Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 82