Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 30
It will surprise no one to learn that these tales are already undergoing great changes among a very large section of the natives on the border.
Who acts: variety, tales · What happens: surprise, learn, undergo, section · To what, where: one, great changes, natives
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 (variety, tales), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surprise | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprise | aux |
| 3 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surprise | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 learn | mark |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 one | acl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 undergoing | mark |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 tales | det |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 undergoing | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 undergoing | aux |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 undergoing | advmod |
| 13 | undergoing | undergo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 learn | advcl |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 changes | amod |
| 15 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 undergoing | obj |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 section | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 section | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 large | advmod |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 section | amod |
| 20 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 undergoing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 natives | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 natives | det |
| 23 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 section | nmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 border | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 border | det |
| 26 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 natives | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | future | variety | no one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | variety not said here | no one not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | undergo | present · progressive | this tales | great changes | among a large section of the natives on the border | tree rules | |||
| 4 | section | the natives on the border | nom section «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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