Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 14

It protects her from gross ill-treatment by her husband, as violence gives a woman’s relatives a right to claim her divorce without restoring the cattle.

Who acts: system, violence, transfer · What happens: protect, give, claim, restore, divorce · To what, where: transfer, relatives, divorce, cattle

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 (system, violence, transfer), 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	2 protects	nsubj
2	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 protects	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 treatment	case
5	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 treatment	amod
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 treatment	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct
8	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protects	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 husband	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protects	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gives	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 gives	mark
14	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	nsubj
15	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 protects	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 relatives	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 woman	case
19	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gives	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 right	det
21	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 claim	mark
23	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 right	acl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 divorce	nmod:poss
25	divorce	divorce	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 claim	obj
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	27 restoring	mark
27	restoring	restore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 claim	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cattle	det
29	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 restoring	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 protects	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	protect	present	system		transfer	by transfer's husband; from gross ill treatment	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary from treatment=Theme
2	give	present	violence	a woman's relatives		a right obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent relative=Recipient right=Theme
3	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	violence not said here	transfer's divorce			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent divorce=Topic
4	restore	gerund	violence not said here	the cattle			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme
5	divorce		transfer				nom divorce «act transitive»: poss=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, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 14

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Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 14