Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 8

But there are three different words for father, according as a person is speaking of his own father or uncle, of the father or uncle of the person he is speaking to, or of the father or uncle of the person he is speaking of.

Who acts: three different words, according, person · What happens: be, accord, speak · To what, where: person · 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 (three different words, according, person), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 are	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 words	nummod
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 father	case
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 speaking	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 speaking	csubj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 person	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 according	obl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 speaking	aux
15	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 words	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 father	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 father	amod
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speaking	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 uncle	cc
21	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 father	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 father	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 father	det
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speaking	conj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 uncle	cc
27	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 father	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 person	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 person	det
30	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 father	nmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 speaking	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 speaking	aux
33	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 person	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	33 speaking	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 father	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 father	cc
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 father	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 father	det
39	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 speaking	conj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 uncle	cc
41	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 father	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 person	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 person	det
44	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 father	nmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 speaking	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 speaking	aux
47	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 person	acl:relcl
48	of	of	ADP	_	47 speaking	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	three different words for father		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	accord	gerund				as a person	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	present · progressive	according			of person's own father or uncle; the father of the person or uncle conj	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	present · progressive	person	the person not said here		the father of the person or uncle conj	tree rules
5	speak speech: other	present · progressive	person	the person not said here			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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 8