Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 63
Only the root syllables of these parts of speech remain the same in all combinations.
Who acts: root syllables · What happens: remain · To what, where: same, combinations
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 (root syllables), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 syllables | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 syllables | det |
| 3 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 syllables | compound |
| 4 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remain | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 parts | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 parts | det |
| 7 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 syllables | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 speech | case |
| 9 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parts | nmod |
| 10 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remain | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 combinations | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 combinations | det |
| 15 | combinations | combination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remain | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | the root syllables of this parts of speech | the same | all combinations | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
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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