Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 49
A day suffices for a poor man, but a rich man’s marriage festivities may last a week or upwards.
Who acts: day, marriage festivities · What happens: suffice, last
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 (day, marriage festivities), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffices | nsubj |
| 3 | suffices | suffice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffices | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 last | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 last | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 festivities | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 festivities | compound |
| 15 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 last | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 last | aux |
| 17 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suffices | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 week | det |
| 19 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 last | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 upwards | cc |
| 21 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 17 last | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffices | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffice | present | a day | for a poor man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | last | may | a rich man's marriage festivities | week | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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