Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 15
It is certain that during the latter half of the last century a great many Hottentots were incorporated with the Amaxosa.
Who acts: amalgamation · What happens: be, incorporate · To what, where: great many Hottentots
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 (amalgamation), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | cop |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 incorporated | mark |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 8 half | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 half | det |
| 7 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 half | amod |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 incorporated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 century | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 century | det |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 century | amod |
| 12 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 half | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Hottentots | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Hottentots | amod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Hottentots | amod |
| 16 | Hottentots | hottentot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 incorporated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 incorporated | aux:pass |
| 18 | incorporated | incorporate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 certain | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Amaxosa | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Amaxosa | det |
| 21 | Amaxosa | Amaxosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 incorporated | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | amalgamation | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | incorporate | past · passive | a great many Hottentots | during the latter half of the last century | with the Amaxosa | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with amaxosa=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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