Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 2
Some of the women as well as of the men have really a wonderful knowledge of the properties of herbs and roots.
Who acts: Some · What happens: have · To what, where: wonderful knowledge
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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 have | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 women | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 women | det |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 11 have | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 knowledge | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 knowledge | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knowledge | amod |
| 15 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 properties | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 properties | det |
| 18 | properties | property | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 knowledge | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 herbs | case |
| 20 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 properties | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 roots | cc |
| 22 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 herbs | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Some of the women | a wonderful knowledge of the properties of herbs and roots | the men nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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