Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 15
They are evidences that the same ideas are common to every branch of the human family at the same stage of progress.
Who acts: Tales, evidences · What happens: be · To what, where: evidences
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tales, evidences), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 evidences | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 evidences | cop |
| 3 | evidences | evidence | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 common | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ideas | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ideas | amod |
| 7 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 common | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 common | cop |
| 9 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evidences | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 branch | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 branch | det |
| 12 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 common | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 family | det |
| 15 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 family | amod |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 branch | nmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 stage | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stage | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stage | amod |
| 20 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 family | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 progress | case |
| 22 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stage | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 evidences | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tales = tale | evidences | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | evidences | to every branch of the human family at the same stage of progress; the same ideas nsubj; common property | 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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