Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 74

She denied most emphatically having been concerned in the death of the child, though she did not doubt that some one had caused it by means of witchcraft.

Who acts: woman, one, child · What happens: deny, have, concern, not doubt, cause, mean · To what, where: death

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, one, child), 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	2 denied	nsubj
2	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 emphatically	advmod
4	emphatically	emphatically	ADV	_	2 denied	advmod
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 denied	advcl
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 concerned	aux:pass
7	concerned	concern	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 having	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 death	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 death	det
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 having	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 child	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 death	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 doubt	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 doubt	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 doubt	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 doubt	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 doubt	advmod
19	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 denied	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 caused	mark
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caused	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 caused	aux
24	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 means	nsubj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 caused	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	24 caused	obl
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 doubt	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 witchcraft	case
29	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 denied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	deny	past	woman			emphatically property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund	woman not said here		the death of the child		tree rules
3	concern	participle · passive	woman not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	not doubt	past · do-support	woman				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	cause	past · perfect	some one	death			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient
6	mean	present				of witchcraft	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	die		the child				nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 74

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 74