Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 103
The warriors are formed into companies under their respective chiefs, and are not divided into regiments of about the same number.
What happens: form, not divide · To what, where: warriors, companies, regiments
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs.. 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 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 formed | aux:pass |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 companies | case |
| 6 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 formed | obl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 chiefs | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chiefs | amod |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 formed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 divided | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 divided | cc |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 divided | aux:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 divided | advmod |
| 15 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 formed | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 regiments | case |
| 17 | regiments | regiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 divided | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 number | case |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 number | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 number | amod |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 regiments | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present · passive | the warriors | companies | under warriors's respective chiefs | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | not divide | present · passive | regiments of the same number | vn other_cos-45.4 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/2/103/