Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 180
The meat of the animal sacrificed is eaten, for the hunger of the spirit is allayed with the smoke.
Who acts: meat · What happens: sacrifice, eat, allay · To what, where: meat, hunger
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 (meat), 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 | 2 meat | det |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animal | det |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meat | nmod |
| 6 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 meat | acl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eaten | aux:pass |
| 8 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunger | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hunger | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hunger | det |
| 12 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eaten | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spirit | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spirit | det |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 allayed | obl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 allayed | aux:pass |
| 17 | allayed | allay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hunger | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 smoke | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 smoke | det |
| 20 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 allayed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sacrifice | past | the meat of the animal not said here | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | present · passive | the meat of the animal | the hunger obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | allay | present · passive | the hunger not said here | of the spirit; with the smoke | 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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