Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 215
Copper is worked into a great variety of ornaments for their persons.
What happens: work · To what, where: Copper, great variety
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 | Copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 worked | aux:pass |
| 3 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 variety | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 variety | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 variety | amod |
| 7 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ornaments | case |
| 9 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 variety | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 persons | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 persons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 worked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present · passive | Copper | a great variety of ornaments | for ornaments's persons | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into variety=Product |
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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