🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 39

The feeling entertained by the Kaffirs about the court in this instance was that B had acted very ungratefully towards A, who had not even been present at the woman’s marriage feast, but who had cheerfully acted in conformity with the custom which requires that a charm must be made out of the hair of the tail of a heifer belonging to a relative of a childless wife, in order to cause her to bear children.

Who acts: custom, heifer, wife · What happens: entertain, act, have, not be, require, make out · To what, where: feeling, instance, marriage feast, conformity, charm, hair

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (custom, heifer, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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