Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 32
Lawsuits are of frequent occurrence, and many Kaffirs display great ability and remarkable powers of oratory in conducting them.
Who acts: Lawsuits, many Kaffirs · What happens: be, display, conduct · To what, where: great ability, ability
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 (Lawsuits, many Kaffirs), 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 | Lawsuits | lawsuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 occurrence | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 occurrence | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 occurrence | case |
| 4 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 occurrence | amod |
| 5 | occurrence | occurrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 display | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 display | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Kaffirs | amod |
| 9 | Kaffirs | kaffir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 display | nsubj |
| 10 | display | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 occurrence | conj |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ability | amod |
| 12 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 display | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 powers | cc |
| 14 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 powers | amod |
| 15 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ability | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 oratory | case |
| 17 | oratory | oratory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 powers | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 conducting | mark |
| 19 | conducting | conduct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 display | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 conducting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occurrence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lawsuits | of frequent occurrence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | display | present | many Kaffirs | great ability and remarkable powers of oratory | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ability=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conduct | gerund | many Kaffirs not said here | ability | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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