Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 6

In such cases, if any difficulties are raised by the guardians on either side, the young people do not scruple to run away together, after which their relatives usually come to an arrangement.

Who acts: guardians, young people, relatives · What happens: raise, not scruple, run away, come · To what, where: difficulties, such cases, arrangement

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 (guardians, young people, relatives), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 cases	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cases	amod
3	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 raised	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cases	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 raised	mark
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 difficulties	det
7	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 raised	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 raised	aux:pass
9	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 guardians	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guardians	det
12	guardians	guardian	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 raised	obl:agent
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	15 side	det
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guardians	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 scruple	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 scruple	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 scruple	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 scruple	advmod
22	scruple	scruple	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 raised	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 run	mark
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 scruple	xcomp
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 run	advmod
26	together	together	ADV	_	24 run	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 come	obl
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 relatives	nmod:poss
31	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 come	nsubj
32	usually	usually	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
33	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 raised	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 arrangement	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 arrangement	det
36	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	present · passive	the guardians on either side	any difficulties	such cases		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in case=Destination
2	not scruple	present · do-support	the young people				tree rules
3	run away	to-infinitive	the young people not said here			away, together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	people's relatives		a arrangement	which obl; usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to arrangement=Initial_Location

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 6

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 6