Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 227
A great portion of their time is spent in visiting and gossip, of which they are exceedingly fond.
Who acts: skins · What happens: spend, be · To what, where: great portion, visiting
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 (skins), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 portion | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 portion | amod |
| 3 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 time | nmod:poss |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 portion | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spent | aux:pass |
| 8 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 visiting | case |
| 10 | visiting | visiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spent | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gossip | cc |
| 12 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 visiting | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fond | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fond | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fond | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fond | cop |
| 18 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 19 fond | advmod |
| 19 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spent | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present · passive | a great portion of skins's time | visiting and gossip | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | present | skins = skin | which obl; exceedingly, fond property | 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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