Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 48
This dancing, with intervals of rest and feasting, continues as long as the bridegroom’s relatives supply oxen for slaughter.
Who acts: dancing, relatives · What happens: continue, supply · To what, where: oxen
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 (dancing, relatives), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 dancing | det |
| 2 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continues | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 intervals | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 intervals | case |
| 5 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dancing | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rest | case |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 intervals | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feasting | cc |
| 9 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dancing | punct |
| 11 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 continues | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 supply | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bridegroom | det |
| 16 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 bridegroom | case |
| 18 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 supply | nsubj |
| 19 | supply | supply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 continues | advcl |
| 20 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 supply | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 slaughter | case |
| 22 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 supply | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 continues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | present | this dancing and intervals of rest and feasting | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | supply | present | the bridegroom's relatives | oxen | for slaughter | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ox=Theme for slaughter=Recipient |
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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