Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 115
It is sometimes put in this form, The people who protect with one hand and kill with the other.
Who acts: people · What happens: put, protect, kill · To what, where: Kaffir, form
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 form | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 form | det |
| 7 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 people | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 protect | nsubj |
| 12 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hand | nummod |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 protect | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kill | cc |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 protect | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kill | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | Kaffir | this form | the people conj; sometimes property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in form=Destination | |||
| 2 | protect | present | the people | with one hand | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | the people not said here | with the other | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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