Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 191
Nevertheless, implicit confidence was placed in his successor, until he, too, met the same fate.
Who acts: finder · What happens: place, meet · To what, where: implicit confidence, successor, same fate
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 (finder), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 6 placed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | implicit | implicit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 confidence | amod |
| 4 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | aux:pass |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 successor | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 successor | nmod:poss |
| 9 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 met | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 met | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fate | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fate | amod |
| 19 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | implicit confidence | finder's successor | nevertheless property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in successor=Destination | |||
| 2 | meet | past | finder | the same fate | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Co-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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