Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 48
He believes that a spirit pulls the person under water, and that this spirit is willing sometimes to accept an ox as a ransom for the human victim.
Who acts: idea, spirit · What happens: believe, pull, be, accept · To what, where: person, water, ox
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 (idea, spirit), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believes | nsubj |
| 2 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 pulls | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spirit | det |
| 5 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulls | nsubj |
| 6 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believes | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulls | obj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulls | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 willing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 willing | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 willing | mark |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 spirit | det |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 willing | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 willing | cop |
| 17 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 believes | parataxis |
| 18 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 accept | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 accept | mark |
| 20 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 willing | xcomp |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ox | det |
| 22 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accept | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 ransom | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ransom | det |
| 25 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accept | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 victim | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 victim | det |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 victim | amod |
| 29 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accept | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | idea | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | pull | present | a spirit | the person | water | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent person=Result | |||
| 3 | is | present | this spirit | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | accept | to-infinitive | this spirit not said here | a ox | as a ransom; for the human victim; sometimes property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ox=Theme as ransom=Attribute |
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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