Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 12
(d) Kaffir law recognises the right of individuals to possess landed property.
Who acts: d Kaffir law · What happens: recognise, possess, land · To what, where: right, landed property
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (d Kaffir law), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 d | punct |
| 2 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 law | compound |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 d | punct |
| 4 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 law | compound |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognises | nsubj |
| 6 | recognises | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 right | det |
| 8 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognises | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 individuals | case |
| 10 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 right | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 possess | mark |
| 12 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 right | acl |
| 13 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 property | amod |
| 14 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possess | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recognises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | present | d Kaffir law | the right of individuals | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | possess | to-infinitive | d Kaffir law not said here | landed property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot property=Theme | ||||
| 3 | land | participle | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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