Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 219
Though they were frequently not more than an eighth of an inch in thickness, so finely tempered were they that the most intense heat did not damage them.
Who acts: Vessels, intense heat · What happens: not be, temper, be, not damage · To what, where: Vessels
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 (Vessels, intense heat), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 more | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 more | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 more | cop |
| 4 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 eighth | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 eighth | det |
| 9 | eighth | eighth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 inch | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 inch | det |
| 12 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eighth | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 thickness | case |
| 14 | thickness | thickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inch | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tempered | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 tempered | advmod |
| 17 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 18 tempered | advmod |
| 18 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 more | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 they | cop |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tempered | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 damage | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 heat | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 intense | advmod |
| 24 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heat | amod |
| 25 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 damage | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 damage | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 damage | advmod |
| 28 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 they | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 damage | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Vessels = vessel | than a eighth of a inch in thickness; frequently, more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | temper | participle | Vessels = vessel not said here | finely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Vessels = vessel | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not damage | past · do-support | the intense heat | Vessels = vessel | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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