Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 94
The villages are usually in situations which command a good view of the surrounding country.
Who acts: villages, situations · What happens: be, command, view · To what, where: situations, good view, surrounding country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (villages, situations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 villages | det |
| 2 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 situations | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 situations | cop |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 situations | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 situations | case |
| 6 | situations | situation | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 command | nsubj |
| 8 | command | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 situations | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 view | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 view | amod |
| 11 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 command | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 country | compound |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 view | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 situations | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the villages | situations | usually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | command | present | situations | a good view of the surrounding country | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent view=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | view | the surrounding country | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=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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