Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 117
The coming of Nkele.
What happens: come
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coming | det |
| 2 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Nkele | case |
| 4 | Nkele | Nkele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 coming | obl |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | of Nkele | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of nkele=Initial_Location |
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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