Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 1
Among the natives of South Africa relationship is viewed differently from what it is by Europeans.
What happens: view, be · To what, where: relationship
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 natives | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 natives | det |
| 3 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 viewed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Africa | case |
| 5 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Africa | compound |
| 6 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 natives | nmod |
| 7 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 viewed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 viewed | aux:pass |
| 9 | viewed | view | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 9 viewed | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 viewed | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Europeans | expl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Europeans | cop |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Europeans | case |
| 16 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 what | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 viewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | view | present · passive | relationship | among the natives of South Africa; what parataxis; differently property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | by Europeans | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/34/1/