Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 67
This is not a fancy of children, but the implicit belief of grown-up men and women at the present day.
Who acts: This · What happens: not be, grow up, believe · To what, where: fancy, grown men
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: who acts (This), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fancy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fancy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fancy | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fancy | det |
| 5 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fancy | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 belief | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 belief | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 belief | det |
| 11 | implicit | implicit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 belief | amod |
| 12 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fancy | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 men | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 up | punct |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grown | compound:prt |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 belief | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 women | cc |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 men | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | This | a fancy | of children; the implicit belief of grown men at the present day and women parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | believe | grown men at the present day and women | nom belief «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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