Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 3
Most Kaffir tales are destitute of moral teaching from our point of view.
Who acts: Most Kaffir tales, our · What happens: be, point · To what, where: destitute, view
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 (Most Kaffir tales, our), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 tales | amod |
| 2 | Kaffir | kaffir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tales | compound |
| 3 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 destitute | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 destitute | cop |
| 5 | destitute | destitute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 teaching | case |
| 7 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 teaching | amod |
| 8 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destitute | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 point | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 point | nmod:poss |
| 11 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teaching | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 view | case |
| 13 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 point | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 destitute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Most Kaffir tales | destitute | of moral teaching from our point of view | tree rules | |||
| 2 | point | our | view | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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