Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 8
(c) Ikùba, a pick or hoe.
To what, where: c
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 c | punct |
| 2 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | punct |
| 4 | Ikùba | Ikùba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 c | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pick | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pick | det |
| 7 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 c | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 hoe | cc |
| 9 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pick | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 c | 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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