Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 15

Each fixes his eye upon the eye of his opponent, and seeks to ward off blows as well as to inflict them.

Who acts: Each · What happens: fix, seek, ward off, inflict · To what, where: eye, blows, boys

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 fixes	nsubj
2	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eye	nmod:poss
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixes	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixes	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 opponent	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 opponent	nmod:poss
10	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seeks	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seeks	cc
13	seeks	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fixes	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ward	mark
15	ward	ward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seeks	xcomp
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 ward	compound:prt
17	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ward	obj
18	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	15 ward	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed
20	as	as	ADP	_	18 as	fixed
21	to	to	PART	_	22 inflict	mark
22	inflict	inflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ward	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 inflict	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fixes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fix	present	Each	Khàkhàbay's eye	upon the eye of Khàkhàbay's opponent	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	seek	present	Each not said here			tree rules
3	ward off not said to happen	to-infinitive	Each not said here	blows		tree rules
4	inflict	to-infinitive	Each not said here	boys = boy		tree rules

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 Sikulume., sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 15