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Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 19

They form only a small portion of the folklore that is extant among them, but it is believed that they have been so selected as to leave no distinguishing feature unrepresented.

Who acts: PEOPLE, folklore · What happens: form, be, believe, select, leave, unrepresent · To what, where: small portion, portion, PEOPLE, distinguishing feature

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 (PEOPLE, folklore), 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

nsubjadvmoddetamodobjcasedetnmodnsubjcopacl:relclcaseoblpunctccnsubj:passaux:passparataxismarknsubjauxaux:passadvmodccompmarkmarkadvcldetamodobjaclpunctrootTheyPRONformVERBonlyADVaDETsmallADJportionNOUNofADPtheDETfolkloreNOUNthatPRONisAUXextantADJamongADPthemPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJitPRONisAUXbelievedVERBthatSCONJtheyPRONhaveAUXbeenAUXsoADVselectedVERBasSCONJtoPARTleaveVERBnoDETdistinguishingADJfeatureNOUNunrepresentedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 formnsubj
2formformVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3onlyonlyADV_6 portionadvmod
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 portiondet
5smallsmallADJDegree=Pos6 portionamod
6portionportionNOUNNumber=Sing2 formobj
7ofofADP_9 folklorecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 folkloredet
9folklorefolkloreNOUNNumber=Sing6 portionnmod
10thatthatPRONPronType=Rel12 extantnsubj
11isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 extantcop
12extantextantADJDegree=Pos9 folkloreacl:relcl
13amongamongADP_14 themcase
14themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 extantobl
15,,PUNCT_19 believedpunct
16butbutCCONJ_19 believedcc
17ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 believednsubj:pass
18isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 believedaux:pass
19believedbelieveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 formparataxis
20thatthatSCONJ_25 selectedmark
21theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 selectednsubj
22havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 selectedaux
23beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 selectedaux:pass
24sosoADV_25 selectedadvmod
25selectedselectVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 believedccomp
26asasSCONJ_28 leavemark
27totoPART_28 leavemark
28leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf25 selectedadvcl
29nonoDETPronType=Neg31 featuredet
30distinguishingdistinguishingADJDegree=Pos31 featureamod
31featurefeatureNOUNNumber=Sing28 leaveobj
32unrepresentedunrepresentVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass31 featureacl
33..PUNCT_2 formpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1formpresentPEOPLEa small portion of the folklorevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location portion=Theme
2ispresentthe folkloreamong PEOPLE; extant propertytree rules
3believepresent · passiveportiontree rules
4selectpresent · perfect · passivePEOPLEvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5leaveto-infinitiveno distinguishing featurevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feature=Theme
6unrepresentparticipleno distinguishing feature not said heretree 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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