Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 35
The commonest indoor game of the Kaffirs is the one called Iceya.
Who acts: commonest indoor game · What happens: be, call · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (commonest indoor game), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 2 | commonest | common | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 game | amod |
| 3 | indoor | indoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 game | amod |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Kaffirs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Kaffirs | det |
| 7 | Kaffirs | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 game | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | acl |
| 12 | Iceya | Iceya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the commonest indoor game of the Kaffirs | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the one not said here | Iceya xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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