Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 1
In the above story Kenkebe is represented as the personification of selfish greed.
What happens: represent · To what, where: Kenkebe, above story
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe.. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 represented | obl |
| 5 | Kenkebe | Kenkebe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 represented | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 represented | aux:pass |
| 7 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 personification | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 personification | det |
| 10 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 represented | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 greed | case |
| 12 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greed | compound |
| 13 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 personification | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | Kenkebe | the above story | as the personification of selfish greed | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as personification=Attribute |
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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