Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 14
Do not let them out of your sight by any means.”
Who acts: you, any, your · What happens: not let, mean, sight · To what, where: birds, sight
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 (you, any, your), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sight | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obl |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 means | mark |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | imperative · do-support | you not said here | birds = bird | your sight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | mean | present | any | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sight | your | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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