Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 143
The largest amount of information on this subject which I ever obtained was from a group of aged Gaikas, among whom was a celebrated native antiquary.
Who acts: I, largest amount, group · What happens: obtain, be, celebrate, amount · To what, where: information, group
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 (I, largest amount, group), 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 | 3 amount | det |
| 2 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 amount | amod |
| 3 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 group | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 information | case |
| 5 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 amount | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 subject | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 subject | det |
| 8 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 information | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 obtained | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 obtained | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 obtained | advmod |
| 12 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 information | acl:relcl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 group | cop |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 group | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 group | det |
| 16 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Gaikas | case |
| 18 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Gaikas | amod |
| 19 | Gaikas | Gaikas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 group | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 antiquary | punct |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 antiquary | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 antiquary | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 antiquary | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 antiquary | det |
| 25 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 antiquary | amod |
| 26 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 antiquary | amod |
| 27 | antiquary | antiquary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 group | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | I | information on this subject | ever | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the largest amount of information on this subject | a group | of aged Gaikas | tree rules | |||
| 3 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | a group | among a celebrated native antiquary | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | amount | information on this subject | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/2/143/