Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 37
In the dance the men stand in lines three, four, or more rows in depth, according to their number, and at a little distance behind the women stand in the same order, that is, they are ranged as follows:—
Who acts: men, women · What happens: stand, accord, be, follow · To what, where: dance, same order, that
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, women), 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 | _ | 3 dance | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dance | det |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 lines | case |
| 8 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stand | obl |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 lines | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 four | punct |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 three | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rows | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 rows | cc |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 rows | amod |
| 15 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lines | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 depth | case |
| 17 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rows | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 number | punct |
| 19 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 number | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 according | fixed |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 number | nmod:poss |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rows | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 distance | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 distance | cc |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 distance | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 distance | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 distance | amod |
| 28 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | conj |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 32 stand | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 women | det |
| 31 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stand | nsubj |
| 32 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 distance | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 order | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 order | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 order | amod |
| 36 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stand | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ranged | punct |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 ranged | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 ranged | cop |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 is | punct |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 ranged | nsubj |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 ranged | aux:pass |
| 43 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stand | conj |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 follows | mark |
| 45 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 ranged | advcl |
| 46 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 47 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the men | the dance | in lines or more rows in depth and men's number; a little distance conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dance=Location | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stand | present | the women | the same order | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present · passive | that | men = man nsubj; range property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | follow | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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