Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 60
He causes women to fall in love with him, for he is of a very amorous disposition towards the female sex.
Who acts: Hili, women · What happens: cause, fall, be · To what, where: women, love
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 (Hili, women), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 causes | nsubj |
| 2 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 causes | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fall | mark |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 causes | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 love | case |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fall | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disposition | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 disposition | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 disposition | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 disposition | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 disposition | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 disposition | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 amorous | advmod |
| 17 | amorous | amorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 disposition | amod |
| 18 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | obl |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 sex | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sex | det |
| 21 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sex | amod |
| 22 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disposition | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 causes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | Hili | women | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | to-infinitive | women not said here | love | with Hili | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | Hili | of a amorous disposition; towards the female sex | tree rules |
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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