Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 2
This is not in accordance with ordinary Kaffir usage, which prohibits females from serving out milk.
Who acts: This, accordance · What happens: not be, prohibit, serve out · To what, where: accordance, females, milk
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, accordance), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 accordance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 accordance | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 accordance | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 accordance | case |
| 5 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 usage | case |
| 7 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 usage | amod |
| 8 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 usage | compound |
| 9 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accordance | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prohibits | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prohibits | nsubj |
| 12 | prohibits | prohibit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 accordance | conj |
| 13 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prohibits | obj |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 serving | mark |
| 15 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 prohibits | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 serving | compound:prt |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serving | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 accordance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | This | accordance | with ordinary Kaffir usage | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prohibit | present | accordance | females | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer female=Theme | ||||
| 3 | serve out | gerund | accordance not said here | milk | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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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