Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 52
He may really give it to one of them, or he may keep it himself.
Who acts: One · What happens: give, keep · To what, where: place, 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 (One), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 give | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 keep | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | aux |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 keep | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | may | One | place | one of others | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to one=Recipient | |||
| 2 | keep | may | One | place | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme himself=Attribute |
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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