Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 17
Without this a survey is no more complete than, for instance, a description of the English people would be if no notice of English literature were taken.
What happens: be, take, describe, notice · To what, where: description, English people, English literature
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: 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 4 survey | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 survey | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 survey | det |
| 4 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 complete | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 complete | cop |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 complete | advmod |
| 8 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 instance | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 instance | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 instance | case |
| 12 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 complete | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 description | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 description | det |
| 15 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 18 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 description | nmod |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 taken | aux:pass |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 taken | mark |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 notice | det |
| 24 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 literature | case |
| 26 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 literature | amod |
| 27 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 notice | nmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux:pass |
| 29 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 complete | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 complete | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | without this survey; than instance; complete property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take a condition, not said to happen | would · passive | a description of the English people | no notice of English literature nsubj:pass | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | describe | the English people | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | notice | English literature | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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