Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 125

Ten years ago his personal ornaments were still in preservation at a village near King William’s Town, but about that date the hope of his return was generally abandoned.

Who acts: personal ornaments, return, Makana · What happens: be, abandon, hope, return · To what, where: preservation, hope

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 (personal ornaments, return, Makana), 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	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ago	obl:unmarked
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 preservation	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ornaments	nmod:poss
5	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ornaments	amod
6	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 preservation	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 preservation	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	10 preservation	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 preservation	case
10	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 preservation	nmod
14	near	near	ADP	_	18 Town	case
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 William	nmod:desc
16	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Town	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 William	case
18	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 village	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 abandoned	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 abandoned	cc
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 date	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 date	det
23	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 abandoned	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hope	det
25	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 abandoned	nsubj:pass
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 return	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 return	nmod:poss
28	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hope	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 abandoned	aux:pass
30	generally	generally	ADV	_	31 abandoned	advmod
31	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 preservation	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 preservation	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Makana's personal ornaments		preservation	still	at a village near William King's Town; ago property	tree rules
2	abandon	past · passive		the hope of Makana's return			about that date; generally property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source
3	hope		Makana's return					nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
4	return		Makana					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 125