Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 14
Not the slightest distinction was made by the witnesses between these different kinds of “medicines.”
Who acts: witnesses · What happens: not make · To what, where: slightest distinction
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: who acts (witnesses), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 distinction | det |
| 3 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 distinction | amod |
| 4 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 witnesses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witnesses | det |
| 9 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 kinds | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 kinds | det |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kinds | amod |
| 13 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 witnesses | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 medicines | case |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 medicines | punct |
| 16 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kinds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | past · passive | the witnesses between this different kinds of medicines | the slightest distinction | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
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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