Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 2
Among them was the daughter of a chief, a very pretty girl.
Who acts: homes · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (homes), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 5 daughter | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 daughter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chief | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 girl | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 pretty | advmod |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | homes = home | among the daughter and a pretty girl; of a chief; a pretty girl conj | 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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