Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 40
You will meet a man whose head is under his arm: you must not take water from him.”
Who acts: You, head · What happens: meet, be, not take · To what, where: man, arm, water
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, head), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 meet | aux |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meet | obj |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arm | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 arm | cop |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 arm | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 meet | conj |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | future | You | a man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | man's arm's head | man's arm | man nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not take | must | you | water | from man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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