Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 37
The players sit in a circle, and each has a little piece of wood, a grain of corn, or something of the kind.
Who acts: players, each · What happens: sit, have · To what, where: circle, little piece
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 (players, each), 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 | 2 players | det |
| 2 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 circle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 circle | det |
| 6 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 has | cc |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 piece | amod |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grain | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 grain | det |
| 18 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 corn | case |
| 20 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grain | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 something | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 something | cc |
| 23 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 has | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 kind | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kind | det |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 something | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the players | a circle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | each | a little piece of wood and a grain of corn | something of the kind obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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