Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 213
The iron was worked cold.
What happens: work · To what, where: iron
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 iron | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worked | aux:pass |
| 4 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 worked | xcomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · passive | the iron | cold property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
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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