Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 18
Kude e-Bakuba, akuyiwanga mntu.
To what, where: Kude e-Bakuba
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 | Kude | Kude | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 e-Bakuba | compound |
| 2 | e-Bakuba | e-bakuba | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mntu | punct |
| 4 | akuyiwanga | akuyiwanga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mntu | compound |
| 5 | mntu | mntu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 e-Bakuba | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 e-Bakuba | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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