Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 163
A superstitious act of a very peculiar kind is somehow or other connected in their minds with prayer to, or worship of, Qamata.
Who acts: peculiar kind, acts, Qamata · What happens: connect, act, mind, worship · To what, where: superstitious act, minds
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 (peculiar kind, acts, Qamata), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 act | det |
| 2 | superstitious | superstitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 act | amod |
| 3 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kind | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 peculiar | advmod |
| 7 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | compound |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 act | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 connected | aux:pass |
| 10 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 13 connected | advmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 other | cc |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 somehow | conj |
| 13 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 minds | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 minds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 connected | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 prayer | case |
| 18 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 minds | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 connected | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worship | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 worship | cc |
| 22 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 connected | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Qamata | case |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 of | punct |
| 25 | Qamata | Qamata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 worship | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 connected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | present · passive | a superstitious act of a peculiar kind | acts's minds with prayer | worship of Qamata obl; somehow property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | act | a peculiar kind | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | mind | acts = act | with prayer | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl | |||||
| 4 | worship | Qamata | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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