Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 111
Ox racing was then one of the institutions of Kaffirland, and was connected with all kinds of festivities.
Who acts: Ox racing · What happens: be, connect · To what, where: one
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 (Ox racing), 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 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 racing | compound |
| 2 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 institutions | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 institutions | det |
| 8 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Kaffirland | case |
| 10 | Kaffirland | Kaffirland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 institutions | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 connected | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 connected | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 connected | aux:pass |
| 14 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 one | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 kinds | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 kinds | det |
| 17 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 connected | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 festivities | case |
| 19 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kinds | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ox racing | one | then | of the institutions of Kaffirland | tree rules | ||
| 2 | connect | past · passive | Ox racing not said here | with all kinds of festivities | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: with kind=Co-Patient |
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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