Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 9

The result is that when the boys are grown up and become men, they are able to use their weapons without any further training.

Who acts: boys · What happens: be, become, use · To what, where: result, men, weapons

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 (boys), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grown	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grown	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 grown	mark
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grown	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grown	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grown	aux:pass
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 grown	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 become	cc
12	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grown	conj
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 men	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 use	mark
19	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 weapons	nmod:poss
21	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	obj
22	without	without	ADP	_	25 training	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 training	det
24	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 training	amod
25	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive		the result	the boys nsubj; grow property	tree rules
2	become	present		men		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	boys = boy	men not said here	able property	tree rules
4	use	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here	boys's weapons	without any further training	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 9