Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 8
These pots were made of clay, and were the nicest and most valuable in the village.
What happens: make, be · To what, where: pots, village
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.. 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 pots | det |
| 2 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 clay | case |
| 6 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nicest | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nicest | cc |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nicest | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nicest | det |
| 11 | nicest | nice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 made | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 valuable | cc |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 valuable | advmod |
| 14 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nicest | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 valuable | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | this pots | of clay | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | nice property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | the village | tree rules |
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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