Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 10
The marriage festivities of one of the ancients, Mapassa by name, are said to have been carried on for a whole year.
What happens: say, carry on · To what, where: marriage festivities · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. 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 festivities | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 festivities | compound |
| 3 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 festivities | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ancients | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ancients | det |
| 8 | ancients | ancient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mapassa | punct |
| 10 | Mapassa | Mapassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ancients | appos |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Mapassa | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 festivities | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux:pass |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carried | mark |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 carried | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 carried | aux:pass |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 carried | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 year | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 year | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 year | amod |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the marriage festivities of one of the ancients | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | carry on | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | year | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument» |
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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