Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 6
The bruised substance is mixed with water, and formed into small loaves of very insipid bread.
What happens: bruise, mix, form · To what, where: bruised substance, small loaves
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 substance | det |
| 2 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 substance | amod |
| 3 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mixed | aux:pass |
| 5 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mixed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 formed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 formed | cc |
| 10 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mixed | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 loaves | case |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 loaves | amod |
| 13 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 formed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bread | case |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 insipid | advmod |
| 16 | insipid | insipid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bread | amod |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loaves | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bruise | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mix | present · passive | the bruised substance | with water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with water=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | form | participle | small loaves of insipid bread | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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