Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 25
They are so constructed that parts of one can be made to fit into parts of another, so as to form a new tale.
Who acts: parts · What happens: construct, make, fit, form · To what, where: stories, parts, new tale
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 (parts), 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 | 4 constructed | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 constructed | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 constructed | advmod |
| 4 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 parts | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 constructed | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fit | mark |
| 13 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 parts | case |
| 15 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fit | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 another | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 parts | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 form | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 form | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 form | mark |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 form | mark |
| 22 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 constructed | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tale | det |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tale | amod |
| 25 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 form | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | present · passive | stories = story | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | make | can · passive | parts of one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fit | to-infinitive | parts of one not said here | parts of another | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into part=Destination | ||||
| 4 | form | to-infinitive | a new tale | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tale=Theme |
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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