Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 47
The idea of the Kaffir with regard to drowning is also shown very distinctly in this tale.
What happens: show · To what, where: idea
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kaffir | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Kaffir | det |
| 5 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 idea | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 regard | case |
| 7 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 idea | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 drowning | case |
| 9 | drowning | drowning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regard | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shown | aux:pass |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 shown | advmod |
| 12 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 distinctly | advmod |
| 14 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 12 shown | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tale | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 tale | det |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shown | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | the idea of the Kaffir with regard to drowning | in this tale; distinctly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in tale=Topic |
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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