Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 6
For this reason, those people were never glossy like those who are fat.
Who acts: people · What happens: not be, be
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 reason | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glossy | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reason | punct |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glossy | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glossy | cop |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 glossy | advmod |
| 9 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 glossy | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 fat | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fat | cop |
| 14 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glossy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | that people | for this reason; like those; glossy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | who nsubj; fat property | tree rules |
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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