Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 125
Of those mentioned their food consisted, with the addition of curdled milk and occasionally flesh.
What happens: mention, consist, curdle, flesh · To what, where: food
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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 those | case |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 those | acl |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 food | nmod:poss |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mentioned | obj |
| 6 | consisted | consist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 those | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 addition | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 addition | det |
| 10 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 those | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 milk | case |
| 12 | curdled | curdle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 milk | amod |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 addition | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flesh | cc |
| 15 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 16 flesh | advmod |
| 16 | flesh | flesh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 those | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | participle | species's food | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent food=Topic | |||||
| 2 | consist | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | curdle | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | flesh | present | occasionally property | 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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