Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 24
There is a peculiarity in many of these stories which makes them capable of almost indefinite expansion.
Who acts: peculiarity, many stories · What happens: be, make · To what, where: many stories, stories
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 (peculiarity, many stories), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 peculiarity | det |
| 4 | peculiarity | peculiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stories | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 stories | det |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 is | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stories | acl:relcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 expansion | case |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 indefinite | advmod |
| 16 | indefinite | indefinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 expansion | amod |
| 17 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 capable | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a peculiarity | this many stories; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | present | this many stories | stories = story | capable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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