Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 42
She is bound to show them the greatest respect, and implicitly to obey their commands.
Who acts: woman, names · What happens: be, show, obey, command · To what, where: names, commands · Speech: someone speaks here
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, names), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bound | cop |
| 3 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 show | mark |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bound | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 show | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 respect | det |
| 8 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 respect | amod |
| 9 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 obey | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 obey | cc |
| 12 | implicitly | implicitly | ADV | _ | 14 obey | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 obey | mark |
| 14 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bound | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 commands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 obey | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | woman | bound property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | woman not said here | names = name | the greatest respect obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient respect=Topic | |||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | woman not said here | names's commands | implicitly property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 4 | command | names = name | nom command «communication 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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