Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 149
“Was he the creator of all that we see, the mountains, and the sun, and the stars?”
Who acts: Qamata, we · What happens: be, see · To what, where: creator, mountains
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 (Qamata, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creator | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 creator | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 creator | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creator | det |
| 5 | creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 that | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 see | obl |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creator | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mountains | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sun | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sun | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stars | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stars | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stars | det |
| 21 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 creator | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 creator | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creator | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Qamata | the creator and the stars | the stars conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | we | the mountains | of the creator and the stars; the sun obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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