Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 7
All along the eastern coast, as far south as the Great Fish River, the country is thickly populated with Kaffir tribes.
Who acts: country · What happens: be, populate
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 (country), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 9 south | advmod |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 coast | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coast | det |
| 4 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coast | amod |
| 5 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 All | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 south | advmod |
| 9 | south | south | ADV | _ | 19 thickly | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 River | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 River | det |
| 12 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 River | amod |
| 13 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 River | compound |
| 14 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 thickly | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 River | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thickly | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 thickly | cop |
| 19 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | populated | populate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thickly | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tribes | case |
| 22 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 tribes | compound |
| 23 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 populated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 thickly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the country | as the Great Fish River; south, thickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | populate | participle | with Kaffir tribes | 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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