Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 6
These were carefully separated, and then persons skilled in such matters were brought to give evidence as to their properties.
What happens: separate, skill, bring, give · To what, where: These, persons, such matters, evidence
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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 separated | aux:pass |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 separated | advmod |
| 4 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 persons | advmod |
| 8 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 persons | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 matters | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 matters | amod |
| 12 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 skilled | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 separated | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 brought | xcomp |
| 17 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 properties | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 properties | nmod:poss |
| 21 | properties | property | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | past · passive | These | carefully property | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | skill | participle | persons not said here | such matters | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · passive | persons | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | evidence | as matters's properties | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme |
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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