Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 188
Before the supremacy of the Europeans it was seldom that the individual who filled this office died a natural death.
Who acts: supremacy, individual · What happens: be, fill, die · To what, where: individual, office, natural death
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 (supremacy, individual), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 supremacy | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 supremacy | det |
| 3 | supremacy | supremacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 individual | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Europeans | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Europeans | det |
| 6 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 supremacy | nmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 individual | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 individual | cop |
| 9 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 12 individual | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 individual | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 individual | det |
| 12 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 individual | acl:relcl |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 office | det |
| 16 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obj |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 death | det |
| 19 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 death | amod |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 died | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 individual | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | supremacy | the individual | before the supremacy of the Europeans | seldom property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | fill | past | the individual | this office | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent office=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the individual not said here | a natural death | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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