Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 89
Their clothing is greased and coloured in the same manner.
What happens: grease, colour · To what, where: clothing, same manner
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: 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 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 2 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greased | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 greased | aux:pass |
| 4 | greased | grease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 coloured | cc |
| 6 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 greased | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 manner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 manner | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 manner | amod |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coloured | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 greased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grease | present · passive | women's clothing | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | colour | participle | the same manner | 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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