Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 96
Their weapons of offence are wooden clubs with heavy heads, and assagais or javelins.
Who acts: weapons · What happens: be · To what, where: wooden clubs
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 (weapons), 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 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clubs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 offence | case |
| 4 | offence | offence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weapons | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clubs | cop |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clubs | amod |
| 7 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heads | amod |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clubs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assagais | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 assagais | cc |
| 13 | assagais | assagai | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clubs | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 javelins | cc |
| 15 | javelins | javelin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 assagais | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 clubs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Europeans's weapons of offence | wooden clubs | with heavy heads; assagais or javelins parataxis | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/2/96/