Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 51
His intellectual abilities are of no mean order, and his reasoning powers are quite equal to those of a white man.
Who acts: intellectual abilities, reasoning powers · What happens: be
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 (intellectual abilities, reasoning powers), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 abilities | nmod:poss |
| 2 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 abilities | amod |
| 3 | abilities | ability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 order | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 order | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 order | det |
| 7 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 order | amod |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 equal | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 equal | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 powers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | reasoning | reasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 powers | compound |
| 13 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 equal | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 equal | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 equal | advmod |
| 16 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 order | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 equal | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 those | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Kaffir's intellectual abilities | of no mean order | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Kaffir's reasoning powers | to those of a white man; equal 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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