Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 39
If there are many players they form themselves into sides or parties, but when they are few in number one plays against the rest.
Who acts: players, few · What happens: be, play · To what, where: sides, number
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, few), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 are | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 form | cop |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 players | amod |
| 5 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 form | nsubj |
| 7 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 form | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 sides | case |
| 10 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 form | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 parties | cc |
| 12 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sides | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plays | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 plays | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 few | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 few | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 few | cop |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plays | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 number | case |
| 20 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 few | obl |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 number | flat |
| 22 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 form | advcl |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 rest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rest | det |
| 25 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plays | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | players = player | sides or parties | form property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | players = player | number | few property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | play | present | few | against the rest | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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