Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 2
It is generally told by the Kaffirs, but I have observed that it is a special favourite in places only where there is a very strong tinge of Hottentot blood.
Who acts: Kaffirs, I, story · What happens: tell, observe, be · To what, where: story, strong tinge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Lion and Little Jackal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaffirs, I, story), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Kaffirs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Kaffirs | det |
| 7 | Kaffirs | kaffir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 observed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 observed | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 observed | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 observed | aux |
| 12 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 tinge | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tinge | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tinge | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tinge | det |
| 17 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 places | amod |
| 18 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 places | amod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 places | case |
| 20 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 tinge | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 where | advmod |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 is | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tinge | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tinge | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 strong | advmod |
| 27 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tinge | amod |
| 28 | tinge | tinge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 observed | advcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 blood | case |
| 30 | Hottentot | Hottentot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 blood | compound |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tinge | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the Kaffirs | story | generally property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | observe | present · perfect | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | story | a strong tinge | of Hottentot blood; special favourite places nsubj | 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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