Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 98
The head was put in a pot to be cooked.
What happens: put, cook · To what, where: head, pot
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pot | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cooked | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cooked | aux:pass |
| 10 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 put | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the head | a pot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cook | to-infinitive · passive | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |
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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