Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 26
In this respect they are like the blocks of wood in the form of cubes with which European children amuse themselves.
Who acts: stories, European children · What happens: be, amuse, form · To what, where: respect, stories, cubes
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 (stories, European children), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 respect | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 respect | det |
| 3 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blocks | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 blocks | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blocks | cop |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 blocks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 blocks | det |
| 8 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blocks | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 form | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 form | det |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wood | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cubes | case |
| 15 | cubes | cube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 form | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 amuse | obl |
| 18 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 amuse | nsubj |
| 20 | amuse | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cubes | acl:relcl |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 amuse | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blocks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | stories = story | this respect | like the blocks; of wood in the form of cubes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | amuse | present | European children | stories = story | with cubes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | form | cubes | nom form «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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