Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 5
Wenziwe ngabomu Sihamba Ngenyanga, Ngabantu abantloni.
To what, where: Wenziwe
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 | Wenziwe | Wenziwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ngabomu | ngabomu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Wenziwe | dep |
| 3 | Sihamba | Sihamba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ngabomu | flat |
| 4 | Ngenyanga | Ngenyanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sihamba | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 abantloni | punct |
| 6 | Ngabantu | Ngabantu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 abantloni | compound |
| 7 | abantloni | abantloni | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sihamba | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wenziwe | 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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