Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 49

How this belief works practically may be illustrated by facts which have come under my own cognizance.

Who acts: belief, facts, my · What happens: work, illustrate, come, cognize · To what, where: own cognizance

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 (belief, facts, my), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 works	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 belief	det
3	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 illustrated	advcl
5	practically	practically	ADV	_	4 works	advmod
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 illustrated	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 illustrated	aux:pass
8	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 facts	case
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 illustrated	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 come	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 facts	acl:relcl
14	under	under	ADP	_	17 cognizance	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cognizance	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cognizance	amod
17	cognizance	cognizance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 illustrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	work	present	this belief		practically property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	illustrate	may · passive	facts			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present · perfect	facts	my own cognizance		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under cognizance=Location
4	cognize		my			nom cognizance «cognition 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 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 49