Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 5
So also is the episode of the broken pot, but the conversation between the two girls differs in some respects.
Who acts: conversation · What happens: be, break, differ · To what, where: episode, respects
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 (conversation), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 also | advmod |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 episode | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 episode | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 episode | det |
| 5 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pot | amod |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 episode | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 differs | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 differs | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 conversation | det |
| 13 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 differs | nsubj |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 girls | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girls | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 girls | nummod |
| 17 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 conversation | nmod |
| 18 | differs | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 episode | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 respects | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 respects | det |
| 21 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 differs | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 episode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the episode | of the broken pot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | differ | present | the conversation between the two girls | some respects | vn correspond-36.1 «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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