Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 1
In this story some liberty is taken with the Kaffir marriage ceremonies, a description of which will serve as a key to much that is contained in several of these tales.
What happens: take, serve, contain · To what, where: liberty, story, much, several
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 liberty | det |
| 5 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 ceremonies | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ceremonies | det |
| 10 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ceremonies | compound |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ceremonies | compound |
| 12 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 description | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 description | det |
| 15 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ceremonies | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 serve | obl |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 serve | aux |
| 19 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 description | acl:relcl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 key | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 key | det |
| 22 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 23 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 27 contained | mark |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 contained | aux:pass |
| 27 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taken | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 several | case |
| 29 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 contained | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tales | case |
| 31 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 tales | det |
| 32 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 several | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | some liberty | this story | with the Kaffir marriage ceremonies; as a key | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as key=Attribute | |||
| 2 | serve | future | of a description | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | contain | present · passive | much | several of this tales | that nsubj:pass | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in several=Location |
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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