Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 21
Among the Tembus, the Pondos, the Zulus, and many other tribes, are people with this same family title.
What happens: be · To what, where: people
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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 Tembus | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tembus | det |
| 3 | Tembus | Tembus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 people | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pondos | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pondos | det |
| 6 | Pondos | Pondos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tembus | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Zulus | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Zulus | det |
| 9 | Zulus | Zulus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pondos | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tribes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tribes | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tribes | amod |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tribes | amod |
| 14 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Pondos | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tembus | punct |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 people | cop |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 title | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 title | nsubj |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 title | amod |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 title | compound |
| 22 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 people | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | people | among the Tembus; with same family title this | 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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