Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 123
But the Kaffirs would not believe that Makana was dead, for they deemed him immortal.
Who acts: Kaffirs, Makana, proverbs · What happens: not believe, be, deem · To what, where: Makana · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Kaffirs, Makana, proverbs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 believe | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Kaffirs | det |
| 3 | Kaffirs | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 dead | mark |
| 8 | Makana | Makana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deemed | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 deemed | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deemed | nsubj |
| 14 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deemed | obj |
| 16 | immortal | immortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deemed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | would | the Kaffirs | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Makana | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deem | past | proverbs = proverb | Makana | immortal obj | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme immortal=Attribute |
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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