Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 55
Their language is rich in words, and is musical in expression, owing to the great number of vowels used.
Who acts: language · What happens: be, owe, use · To what, where: words, expression, great number, vowels
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 (language), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 language | nmod:poss |
| 2 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rich | cop |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rich | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 musical | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 musical | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 musical | cop |
| 10 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rich | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 expression | case |
| 12 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 musical | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 owing | punct |
| 14 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 musical | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 number | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 number | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 number | amod |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 owing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 vowels | case |
| 20 | vowels | vowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 number | nmod |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 vowels | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | women's language | words | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | women's language not said here | expression | musical property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | owe | gerund | women's language not said here | to the great number of vowels goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to number=Goal | ||||
| 4 | use | participle | vowels not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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