Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 61
Towards the edges it is bevelled off, so that the surface is convex, or consists of two inclined planes.
Who acts: surface · What happens: bevell off, be, consist · To what, where: nodiwu
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 (surface), 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 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 edges | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 edges | det |
| 3 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bevelled | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bevelled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bevelled | aux:pass |
| 6 | bevelled | bevell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 bevelled | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 convex | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 convex | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surface | det |
| 12 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 convex | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 convex | cop |
| 14 | convex | convex | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bevelled | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 consists | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 consists | cc |
| 17 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 convex | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 planes | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 planes | nummod |
| 20 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 planes | amod |
| 21 | planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 consists | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bevelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bevell off | present · passive | nodiwu | towards the edges | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the surface | convex property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consist | present | of two inclined planes | 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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