Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 75
The witchfinder was sent for, and, as the matter was considered an important one, a larger number of Kaffirs than usual appeared at the investigation.
Who acts: larger number · What happens: send, consider, appear · To what, where: witchfinder, matter, investigation
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 (larger number), 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 witchfinder | det |
| 2 | witchfinder | witchfinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 considered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 considered | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 considered | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 considered | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 considered | aux:pass |
| 13 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 considered | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 number | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 number | det |
| 19 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 number | amod |
| 20 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 appeared | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kaffirs | case |
| 22 | Kaffirs | kaffir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 number | nmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 usual | case |
| 24 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 number | nmod |
| 25 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | parataxis |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 investigation | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 investigation | det |
| 28 | investigation | investigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 appeared | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the witchfinder | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | consider | past · passive | the matter | a important one xcomp | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | a larger number of Kaffirs than usual | the investigation | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at investigation=Location |
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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