Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 18
It is woven so nicely as to be watertight.
What happens: weave, be · To what, where: land
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk.. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 woven | aux:pass |
| 3 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 nicely | advmod |
| 5 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 3 woven | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 watertight | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 watertight | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 watertight | cop |
| 9 | watertight | watertight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nicely | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | present · passive | land | nicely property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | watertight property | tree rules |
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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