Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 5

They may often be seen enjoying this exercise in little groups, those of the same age keeping together, for there is no greater tyrant in the world than the big Kaffir boy over his younger fellows.

Who acts: same age, enjoying · What happens: see, enjoy, keep together, be · To what, where: stations, exercise, little groups, greater tyrant, world

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 (same age, enjoying), 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	5 seen	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 tyrant	csubj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 exercise	det
8	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enjoying	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 groups	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 groups	amod
11	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enjoying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 those	punct
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 groups	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 age	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 age	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 age	amod
17	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 those	nmod
18	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 age	acl
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 keeping	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 is	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 is	case
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 tyrant	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 tyrant	det
25	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 tyrant	amod
26	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tyrant	nmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	34 boy	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boy	det
32	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 boy	amod
33	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 boy	compound
34	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tyrant	nmod
35	over	over	ADP	_	38 fellows	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 fellows	nmod:poss
37	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 fellows	amod
38	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 boy	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	may · passive		stations = station		often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	enjoy	gerund		this exercise	little groups		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer exercise=Stimulus
3	keep together	gerund	the same age not said here			together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	enjoying	no greater tyrant	the world	than the big Kaffir boy over game's younger fellows	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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 5