Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 208
One of the abatwa was unwilling to spare him, but all the rest agreed.
Who acts: One abatwa, rest · What happens: unwill, spare, agree · To what, where: abatwa
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 (One abatwa, rest), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 abatwa | nummod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 abatwa | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 abatwa | det |
| 4 | abatwa | abatwa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unwilling | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unwilling | aux |
| 6 | unwilling | unwill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spare | mark |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 unwilling | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spare | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 agreed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 agreed | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 rest | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 agreed | nsubj |
| 15 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unwilling | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unwilling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unwill | past · progressive | the One abatwa | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | the One abatwa not said here | abatwa | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | all rest | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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