Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 60
The nodiwu is a piece of wood about six or eight inches long, an inch and a half or two inches wide, and an eighth or a quarter of an inch thick in the middle.
Who acts: nodiwu · What happens: be · To what, where: 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 (nodiwu), 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 nodiwu | det |
| 2 | nodiwu | nodiwu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 six | advmod |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 inches | nummod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 eight | cc |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 six | conj |
| 12 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 long | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wood | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inch | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 inch | det |
| 16 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 half | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 half | det |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 inch | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 inches | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 inches | nummod |
| 22 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 half | conj |
| 23 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 inches | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eighth | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 eighth | cc |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 eighth | det |
| 27 | eighth | eighth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | conj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 quarter | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 quarter | det |
| 30 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eighth | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 inch | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 inch | det |
| 33 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 quarter | nmod |
| 34 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 inch | amod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 middle | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 middle | det |
| 37 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thick | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the nodiwu | a piece and a eighth or a quarter of a inch | of wood; a inch and a half or two inches parataxis; a eighth or a quarter of a inch conj | tree rules |
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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