Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 28
(i) Intambo, a riem, or thong of untanned oxhide.
To what, where: Intambo
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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 i | punct |
| 2 | i | i | NUM | _ | 4 Intambo | discourse |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 i | punct |
| 4 | Intambo | Intambo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 riem | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 riem | det |
| 7 | riem | riem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Intambo | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thong | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 thong | cc |
| 10 | thong | thong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riem | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 oxhide | case |
| 12 | untanned | untanned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 oxhide | amod |
| 13 | oxhide | oxhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thong | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Intambo | 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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