Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 4
The parts referring to the bird and the manner of the children’s delivery are the same in all.
Who acts: parts, children · What happens: refer, be, deliver · To what, where: all
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 (parts, children), 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 parts | det |
| 2 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 same | nsubj |
| 3 | referring | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 parts | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bird | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 referring | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 manner | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 manner | det |
| 9 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 delivery | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 delivery | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 children | case |
| 14 | delivery | delivery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 manner | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 same | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 same | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 same | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | gerund | the parts not said here | to the bird and the manner of the children's delivery | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to bird=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the parts | all | same property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deliver | the children | nom delivery «act transitive»: poss=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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