Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 45
This part of the game is called the Umnyadala (the winding up).
What happens: call · To what, where: part · 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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 part | det |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 game | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 part | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Umnyadala | det |
| 9 | Umnyadala | Umnyadala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 winding | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 winding | det |
| 12 | winding | winding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Umnyadala | appos |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 winding | compound:prt |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 winding | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | this part of the game | the Umnyadala xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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