Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 108
Great care is taken of them, and particular skill is exhibited in their training.
Who acts: cattle · What happens: take, exhibit, train · To what, where: Great care, particular skill, training
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: who acts (cattle), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 care | amod |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exhibited | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 exhibited | cc |
| 9 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skill | amod |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exhibited | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 exhibited | aux:pass |
| 12 | exhibited | exhibit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 training | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 training | nmod:poss |
| 15 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exhibited | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | Great care | of cattle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | exhibit | present · passive | particular skill | cattle's training | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | train | cattle | nom training «act transitive»: 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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