Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 54
The men are handsomer than the women, which is owing to the difference in their mode of living.
Who acts: men, women · What happens: be, owe · To what, where: mode
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 (men, women), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 handsomer | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 handsomer | cop |
| 4 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 women | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 women | det |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 handsomer | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 owing | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 owing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 owing | aux |
| 11 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 women | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 difference | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 difference | det |
| 14 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owing | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mode | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mode | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 living | case |
| 19 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mode | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 handsomer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the men | than the women; handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | owe | present · progressive | the women | women's mode of living | to the difference goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to difference=Goal |
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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