Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 2
The place where they lived was close to a path, along which droves of wild animals were accustomed to pass.
Who acts: children, place · What happens: live, be, accustom, pass · To what, where: droves
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, place), 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 close | nsubj |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 lived | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 place | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 close | cop |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 path | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 path | det |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 close | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accustomed | punct |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 accustomed | obl |
| 14 | droves | drove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 animals | case |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 animals | amod |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 droves | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 19 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 close | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pass | mark |
| 21 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 accustomed | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | children = child | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the place | to a path; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accustom | past · passive | droves of wild animals | which obl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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