Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 50
On the closing day the bridegroom and his friends march from one hut, while the bride and her party march from another, so as to meet in front of the entrance to the cattle kraal.
Who acts: bridegroom · What happens: march, meet · To what, where: bride, one hut, front
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 (bridegroom), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | closing | closing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 march | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridegroom | det |
| 6 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 march | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 friends | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bridegroom | conj |
| 10 | march | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 hut | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hut | nummod |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 march | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bride | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 bride | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bride | det |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 march | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 march | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 march | nmod:poss |
| 20 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 march | compound |
| 21 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bride | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 another | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 march | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 meet | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 meet | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 meet | mark |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 meet | mark |
| 28 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 march | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 front | case |
| 30 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meet | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 entrance | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 entrance | det |
| 33 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 front | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 kraal | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 kraal | det |
| 36 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 kraal | compound |
| 37 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 entrance | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 march | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | present | the bridegroom and bridegroom's friends | the bride and bride's party march from another | one hut | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hut=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the bridegroom and bridegroom's friends not said here | front of the entrance to the cattle kraal | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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