Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 18
This peculiarity seems to indicate that the tribes and clans of the present day are combinations of others that were dispersed before their traditional history commenced.
Who acts: peculiarity, tribes · What happens: seem, indicate, be, disperse, commence · To what, where: combinations, others, traditional history
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: who acts (peculiarity, tribes), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 peculiarity | det |
| 2 | peculiarity | peculiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 indicate | mark |
| 5 | indicate | indicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 combinations | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tribes | det |
| 8 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 combinations | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clans | cc |
| 10 | clans | clan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tribes | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tribes | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 combinations | cop |
| 16 | combinations | combination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 indicate | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 others | case |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 combinations | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 dispersed | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dispersed | aux:pass |
| 21 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 others | acl:relcl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 history | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 history | nmod:poss |
| 24 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 history | amod |
| 25 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dispersed | obl |
| 26 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 history | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | this peculiarity | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | indicate | to-infinitive | this peculiarity not said here | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the tribes of the present day and clans | combinations | of others | tree rules | |||
| 4 | disperse | past · passive | others | before tribes's traditional history | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | commence | participle | tribes's traditional history not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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