Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 67

Men will, on this account, often prevent boys from using it when they desire calm weather for any purpose.

Who acts: Men · What happens: prevent, use, desire · To what, where: boys, account, calm weather

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 (Men), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 prevent	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Men	acl:relcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 account	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 account	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 account	det
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Men	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Men	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 prevent	advmod
9	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 prevent	obj
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 using	mark
12	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 prevent	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 using	obj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 desire	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 desire	nsubj
16	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 prevent	advcl
17	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 weather	amod
18	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 desire	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 purpose	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 purpose	det
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 desire	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prevent	present	Men and this account	boys	often property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer boy=Theme
2	use	gerund	Men and this account not said here	account		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	desire	present	men = man	calm weather	for any purpose	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot weather=Theme

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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 67