Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 10
The lover is legally subject to a fine of no great amount, and the husband may give the woman a beating, but that finishes the penalty.
Who acts: lover, husband, that · What happens: be, give, finish, fine · To what, where: beating, woman, penalty, great amount
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, husband, that), 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 lover | det |
| 2 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 subject | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 subject | cop |
| 4 | legally | legally | ADV | _ | 5 subject | advmod |
| 5 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 fine | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fine | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 subject | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 amount | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 amount | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 amount | amod |
| 12 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fine | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 husband | det |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 subject | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 beating | det |
| 22 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 finishes | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 finishes | cc |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 finishes | nsubj |
| 26 | finishes | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 subject | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 penalty | det |
| 28 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 finishes | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the lover | to a fine of no great amount; legally, subject property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | may | the husband | a beating | the woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient beating=Theme | |||
| 3 | finish | present | that | the penalty | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality penalty=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | fine | no great amount | nom fine «possession transitive»: of=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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