Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 46

The dance consists merely in springing straight up and coming down with a quivering of the body; but when the men warm to it, it gives them great satisfaction.

Who acts: dance, body · What happens: consist, spring, come down, quiver, give · To what, where: great satisfaction, men

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 (dance, body), 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	2 dance	det
2	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consists	nsubj
3	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	merely	merely	ADV	_	3 consists	advmod
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 springing	mark
6	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 consists	advcl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	6 springing	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 coming	cc
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 springing	conj
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 coming	advmod
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 quivering	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 quivering	det
14	quivering	quiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 coming	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 body	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 body	det
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quivering	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 warm	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 warm	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 warm	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 warm	nsubj
23	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 consists	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 warm	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gives	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gives	nsubj
28	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 consists	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gives	iobj
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 satisfaction	amod
31	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gives	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consists	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	consist	present	the dance			merely property	tree rules
2	spring	gerund	the dance not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come down	gerund	the dance not said here			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	quiver	gerund	the dance not said here			of the body	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	give	present	body	great satisfaction	men = man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient satisfaction=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 46

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 46