Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 1
There are three or four versions of this story, but all agree in the main points.
Who acts: three versions, all · What happens: be, agree · To what, where: main points
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three versions, all), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 versions | nummod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 four | cc |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 three | conj |
| 6 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 versions | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 agree | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 agree | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 agree | nsubj |
| 13 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 points | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 points | det |
| 16 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 points | amod |
| 17 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 agree | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | three versions of this story | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | present | all | the main points | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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