Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 29
Large skins containing milk are sent from different kraals to the place where the ntonjane is held.
Who acts: Large skins · What happens: contain, send, hold · To what, where: milk, Large skins, different kraals, ntonjane
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Large skins), 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 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 skins | amod |
| 2 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 skins | acl |
| 4 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 containing | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 kraals | case |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kraals | amod |
| 9 | kraals | kraal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 held | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ntonjane | det |
| 15 | ntonjane | ntonjane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 held | aux:pass |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | gerund | Large skins not said here | milk | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot milk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | present · passive | Large skins | different kraals | to the place | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from kraal=Initial_Location to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | hold | present · passive | the ntonjane | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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