Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 15
It creates protectors for herself and her children in the persons of all the individuals among whom the cattle are shared.
Who acts: violence · What happens: create, share · To what, where: protectors, 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 (violence), 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 creates | nsubj |
| 2 | creates | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | protectors | protector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 creates | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 protectors | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 children | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 herself | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 persons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 persons | det |
| 11 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 children | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 individuals | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 individuals | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 individuals | det |
| 15 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 persons | nmod |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 individuals | nmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cattle | det |
| 19 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 shared | aux:pass |
| 21 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 whom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 creates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | present | violence | protectors | for transfer | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent protector=Result for herself=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | share | present · passive | the cattle | 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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