Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 46
The beer-drinking company on the mats under a tree, the escort of the bride to her husband, and the wedding feast are true to the life.
Who acts: wedding feast · What happens: drink, be · To what, where: drinking company
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 (wedding feast), 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 | 5 company | det |
| 2 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drinking | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 beer | punct |
| 4 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 company | amod |
| 5 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mats | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mats | det |
| 8 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 company | nmod |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mats | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 escort | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 escort | det |
| 14 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 company | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bride | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bride | det |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 escort | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bride | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 true | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 true | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 feast | det |
| 24 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feast | compound |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 true | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 true | cop |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 company | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 life | det |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 true | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 company | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | gerund | beer compound | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the wedding feast | to the life; true property | tree rules |
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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