Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 231
Such, in brief, are the Kaffirs, the people among whom the following stories are current.
Who acts: Such brief, following stories · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: Kaffirs
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 (Such brief, following stories), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brief | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brief | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 brief | case |
| 4 | brief | brief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Kaffirs | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brief | punct |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Kaffirs | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Kaffirs | det |
| 8 | Kaffirs | kaffir | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Kaffirs | appos |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stories | det |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 stories | amod |
| 16 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 current | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 current | cop |
| 18 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whom | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kaffirs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Such brief | the Kaffirs | the people among the Kaffirs appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the following stories | current 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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