Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 223
Baskets for holding grain, rush mats, bags, and drinking vessels made of grass are among the products of their labour.
Who acts: Baskets, drinking vessels · What happens: hold, rush, drink, make, be · To what, where: grain, mats, drinking 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 (Baskets, drinking vessels), 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 | Baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rush | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 holding | mark |
| 3 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Baskets | acl |
| 4 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rush | punct |
| 6 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rush | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bags | punct |
| 9 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mats | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 products | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 products | cc |
| 12 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 vessels | amod |
| 13 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 products | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 vessels | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 grass | case |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 products | cop |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 products | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 products | det |
| 20 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rush | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 labour | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 labour | nmod:poss |
| 23 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 products | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | Baskets not said here | grain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush | infinitive | Baskets | mats and bags | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | participle | drinking vessels not said here | of grass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | is | present | drinking vessels | among the products; of Vessels's labour | tree rules |
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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