Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 21
Owing to this, their traditional stories may have been modified to some, though not to any great, extent
What happens: owe, modify · To what, where: this, traditional stories
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: 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 | Owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 modified | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Owing | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Owing | punct |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stories | nmod:poss |
| 6 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stories | amod |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 modified | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 modified | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 modified | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 modified | aux:pass |
| 11 | modified | modify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 some | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 modified | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 extent | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 extent | mark |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 extent | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 extent | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 extent | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 extent | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 great | punct |
| 21 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 modified | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | gerund | to this goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to this=Goal | |||||
| 2 | modify | may · perfect · passive | roots's traditional stories | to some; to any great extent | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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