Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 38
She is termed the great wife, and her eldest son is the principal heir.
Who acts: eldest son · What happens: term, be · To what, where: alliance, principal heir
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 (eldest son), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 termed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 termed | aux:pass |
| 3 | termed | term | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 termed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heir | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heir | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heir | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 heir | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heir | det |
| 14 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heir | amod |
| 15 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 termed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | term | present · passive | alliance | the great wife and the principal heir obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme wife=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | alliance's eldest son | the principal heir | 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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