Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 87
No covering was ordinarily worn on the head, though a fillet, intended for show, was commonly bound round it, and a fantastic head-dress was used by the women on certain festive occasions.
Who acts: women · What happens: wear, intend, bind, use · To what, where: covering, head, fillet, fantastic head dress
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 (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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 covering | det |
| 2 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worn | aux:pass |
| 4 | ordinarily | ordinarily | ADV | _ | 5 worn | advmod |
| 5 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bound | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 bound | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fillet | det |
| 12 | fillet | fillet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intended | punct |
| 14 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fillet | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 show | case |
| 16 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 intended | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fillet | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bound | aux:pass |
| 19 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 20 bound | advmod |
| 20 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 worn | conj |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bound | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 used | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 used | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dress | det |
| 26 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dress | amod |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dress | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 head | punct |
| 29 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 used | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 used | aux:pass |
| 31 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 worn | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 women | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 women | det |
| 34 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 used | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 occasions | case |
| 36 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 occasions | amod |
| 37 | festive | festive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 occasions | amod |
| 38 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 women | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past · passive | no covering | the head | ordinarily property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | |||
| 2 | intend | participle | a fillet not said here | for show | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bind | past · passive | a fillet | round covering; commonly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | use | past · passive | the women on certain festive occasions | a fantastic head dress | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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