Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 47
The winner is greeted as the wearer of the tiger skin mantle.
What happens: greet · To what, where: winner
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 winner | det |
| 2 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greeted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 greeted | aux:pass |
| 4 | greeted | greet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 wearer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wearer | det |
| 7 | wearer | wearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greeted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mantle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mantle | det |
| 10 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mantle | compound |
| 12 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wearer | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | present · passive | the winner | as the wearer of the skin mantle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as wearer=Attribute |
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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