Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 14
A paternal aunt is addressed as dadebobawo—i.e., sister of my father.
What happens: address · To what, where: paternal aunt
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 aunt | det |
| 2 | paternal | paternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 aunt | amod |
| 3 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 addressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 dadebobawo | case |
| 7 | dadebobawo | dadebobawo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 addressed | obl |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 i.e. | punct |
| 9 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 5 addressed | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sister | punct |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 i.e. | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sister | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | present · passive | a paternal aunt | as dadebobawo | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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