Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 79
Their history is thus traditional, and cannot be considered authentic beyond four or five generations back.
Who acts: history · What happens: be, not consider
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 (history), 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 history | nmod:poss |
| 2 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 traditional | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 traditional | cop |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 traditional | advmod |
| 5 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 considered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 considered | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 considered | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 considered | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 considered | aux:pass |
| 11 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 traditional | conj |
| 12 | authentic | authentic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 considered | xcomp |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 generations | case |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 generations | nummod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 five | cc |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 four | conj |
| 17 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 considered | obl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 generations | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 traditional | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | signs's history | thus, traditional property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not consider | can · passive | signs's history not said here | beyond four generations | authentic property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» |
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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