Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 41
According to Kaffir custom no woman may pronounce the names of any of her husband’s male relatives in the ascending line.
Who acts: woman · What happens: accord, pronounce, ascend · To what, where: names
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 custom | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 custom | compound |
| 4 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pronounce | obl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pronounce | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pronounce | aux |
| 8 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 names | det |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pronounce | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 any | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 names | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 relatives | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 husband | case |
| 17 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 relatives | compound |
| 18 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 any | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 line | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 line | det |
| 21 | ascending | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 line | amod |
| 22 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 relatives | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pronounce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pronounce | may | no woman | the names of any of woman's husband's male relatives in the ascending line | accord Kaffir custom | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 3 | ascend | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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