Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 5
In her hut a great variety of roots and dried herbs was found.
What happens: find · To what, where: great variety, hut
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hut | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hut | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 variety | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 variety | amod |
| 6 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 roots | case |
| 8 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 variety | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 herbs | cc |
| 10 | dried | dried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 herbs | amod |
| 11 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 roots | conj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | a great variety of roots and dried herbs | person's hut | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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