Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 3
They are acquainted with various vegetable-poisons and with their antidotes, and not unfrequently make use of them.
What happens: acquaint, not make, use · To what, where: men, use
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 acquainted | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 3 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 poisons | case |
| 5 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 poisons | amod |
| 6 | vegetable | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poisons | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 vegetable | punct |
| 8 | poisons | poison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 acquainted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 antidotes | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 antidotes | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 antidotes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | antidotes | antidote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 poisons | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 make | advmod |
| 16 | unfrequently | unfrequently | ADV | _ | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 acquainted | conj |
| 18 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 use | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 acquainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acquaint speech: other | present · passive | men = man | with various vegetable poisons and men's antidotes | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not make | infinitive | use of men | unfrequently property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | ||||
| 3 | use | men = man | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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