Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 224
Rush bags are made so carefully and strongly that they are used to hold water or any other liquid.
What happens: make, use, hold · To what, where: Rush bags, bags, water
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 | Rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bags | compound |
| 2 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 carefully | advmod |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 used | cc |
| 8 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 12 used | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 used | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 used | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 used | aux:pass |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hold | mark |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | advcl |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 liquid | cc |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 liquid | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 liquid | amod |
| 19 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Rush bags | carefully property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | bags = bag | strongly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | water or any other liquid | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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