Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 33
Their tales are thus a counterpart of the narrators, in possessing an adaptability to growth and a power of conformation to altered circumstances.
Who acts: tales, changes · What happens: be, possess, alter, tell · To what, where: counterpart, adaptability · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tales, changes), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tales | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 counterpart | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 counterpart | cop |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 counterpart | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 counterpart | det |
| 6 | counterpart | counterpart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 narrators | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 narrators | det |
| 9 | narrators | narrator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 counterpart | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 possessing | punct |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 possessing | mark |
| 12 | possessing | possess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 counterpart | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 adaptability | det |
| 14 | adaptability | adaptability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possessing | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 growth | case |
| 16 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possessing | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 power | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 power | det |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 growth | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 conformation | case |
| 21 | conformation | conformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 power | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 circumstances | case |
| 23 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 circumstances | amod |
| 24 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 possessing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 counterpart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | changes's tales | a counterpart | of the narrators; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | possess | gerund | changes's tales not said here | a adaptability | to growth and a power of conformation; to altered circumstances | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot adaptability=Theme | |||
| 3 | alter | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | tell | changes = change | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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