Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 2

I have more than once heard Kaffirs accused of falsehood because they asserted one person to be their father or mother at one time and a different person at another time.

Who acts: I, Kaffirs, Europeans · What happens: have, hear, accuse, assert, be · To what, where: more, one person, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kaffirs, Europeans), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 have	obj
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 more	advcl
7	Kaffirs	Kaffirs	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accused	nsubj
8	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 falsehood	case
10	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accused	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 asserted	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asserted	nsubj
13	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 accused	advcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 person	nummod
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asserted	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	19 father	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 father	cop
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 person	nmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 time	nummod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asserted	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 person	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 person	det
27	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 person	amod
28	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 time	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 time	case
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 person	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	hear	past	I not said here			once property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	accuse	past	Kaffirs			of falsehood	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent of falsehood=Attribute
4	assert	past	Europeans = european	one person	time		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		Europeans's father or mother		Europeans = european nmod:poss; mother conj	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 Demane and Demazana., sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 2