Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 8
The ntengu is rather larger than a swallow, and is of a bright bluish-black colour.
Who acts: ntengu · What happens: be
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 (ntengu), 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 ntengu | det |
| 2 | ntengu | ntengu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 larger | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 larger | cop |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 larger | advmod |
| 5 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 swallow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 swallow | det |
| 8 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 larger | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 colour | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 colour | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 colour | cop |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 colour | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 colour | det |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 colour | amod |
| 15 | bluish | bluish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 black | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bluish | punct |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 colour | amod |
| 18 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swallow | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the ntengu | than a swallow and a bright black colour; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the ntengu not said here | of a bright black colour | 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.
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