Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 55
The last of the Kaffir indoor games is called Cumbelele.
What happens: call · To what, where: last · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 last | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 called | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 games | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 games | det |
| 5 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 games | compound |
| 6 | indoor | indoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 games | amod |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 last | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | Cumbelele | Cumbelele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the last of the Kaffir indoor games | Cumbelele xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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