Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 13
During the trial another portion was to be kept in the mouth.
What happens: keep · To what, where: portion, mouth
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana.. 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 trial | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trial | det |
| 3 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 portion | det |
| 5 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kept | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kept | aux:pass |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouth | det |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | another portion | the mouth | during the trial | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in mouth=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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