Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 12
(The weapons of Khàkhàbay).
To what, where: weapons
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 weapons | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weapons | det |
| 3 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Khàkhàbay | case |
| 5 | Khàkhàbay | Khàkhàbay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 weapons | nmod |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 weapons | punct |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 weapons | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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