Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 9
The custom is general for a married woman to have a lover who is not her husband, and little or no disgrace attaches to her on this account.
Who acts: custom, lover, disgrace · What happens: be, have, not be, attach · To what, where: lover, husband, woman, account
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 (custom, lover, disgrace), 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 custom | det |
| 2 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 general | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 general | cop |
| 4 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 general | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 woman | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lover | det |
| 12 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 husband | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 husband | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 husband | advmod |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lover | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 little | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 little | cc |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 general | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 attaches | cc |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 disgrace | det |
| 23 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attaches | nsubj |
| 24 | attaches | attach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 general | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 attaches | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 account | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 account | det |
| 29 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attaches | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 general | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the custom | for a married woman; general property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the custom not said here | a lover | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | a lover | woman's husband | woman nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | the custom not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | attach | present | no disgrace | woman | this account | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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