Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 9
Waba kuka ngetunga, laza latshona.
To what, where: Waba kuka ngetunga
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 | Waba | Waba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ngetunga | compound |
| 2 | kuka | kuka | X | _ | 3 ngetunga | compound |
| 3 | ngetunga | ngetunga | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 latshona | punct |
| 5 | laza | laza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 latshona | compound |
| 6 | latshona | latshona | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ngetunga | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ngetunga | 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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