Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 31
According to their traditions, the tribe migrated from the north-east.
What happens: accord, migrate · To what, where: tribe, north east
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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 traditions | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 traditions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tribe | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tribe | det |
| 7 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 traditions | nmod |
| 8 | migrated | migrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tribe | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 east | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 east | det |
| 11 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 east | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 north | punct |
| 13 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 migrated | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 traditions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | migrate | participle | the tribe not said here | the north east | 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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