Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 38

It must be so small that it can easily be concealed in a folded hand, and no player must have more than one.

Who acts: circle, player · What happens: be, conceal, fold, have · To what, where: circle, folded hand, one

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 (circle, player), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 small	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 small	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 concealed	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 concealed	nsubj:pass
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 concealed	aux
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	11 concealed	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 concealed	aux:pass
11	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 small	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hand	det
14	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hand	amod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concealed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 player	det
19	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 small	parataxis
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 one	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 more	fixed
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 have	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	must	circle			small property	tree rules
2	conceal	can · passive		circle	a folded hand	easily property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in hand=Location
3	fold	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	have	must	no player	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 38