Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 43

She may not sit in the house where her father-in-law is seated, she may not even pronounce any word in which the principal syllable of his name occurs.

Who acts: woman, principal syllable, syllable · What happens: not sit, seat, not pronounce, occur, name · To what, where: house, father, word

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, principal syllable, syllable), 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	4 sit	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 seated	advmod
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seated	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 law	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 law	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seated	aux:pass
16	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 house	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pronounce	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pronounce	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pronounce	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 pronounce	advmod
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 pronounce	advmod
22	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 word	det
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pronounce	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 occurs	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 syllable	det
28	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 syllable	amod
29	syllable	syllable	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 occurs	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 name	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 name	nmod:poss
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 syllable	nmod
33	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 word	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not sit	may	woman		the house	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
2	seat	present · passive		woman's father in law		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
3	not pronounce	may	woman	any word		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	occur	present	the principal syllable of syllable's name		any word	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location
5	name		syllable			nom name «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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 43