Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 12
The men then instruct the women to dress the girls for the dance, and when this is done they are ranged in rows in front of the cattle kraal.
Who acts: men · What happens: instruct, dress, do, range · To what, where: women, girls, this, men, rows
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 instruct | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 instruct | advmod |
| 4 | instruct | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 women | det |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 instruct | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dress | mark |
| 8 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 instruct | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girls | det |
| 10 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dress | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dance | det |
| 13 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dress | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ranged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ranged | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 done | advmod |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 done | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ranged | advcl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ranged | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ranged | aux:pass |
| 22 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 instruct | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 rows | case |
| 24 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ranged | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 front | case |
| 26 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ranged | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 kraal | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kraal | det |
| 29 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kraal | compound |
| 30 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 front | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 instruct | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | present | the men | the women | then | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | dress | to-infinitive | the men not said here | the girls | for the dance | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | |||
| 3 | do | present · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | range | present · passive | men = man | rows | in front of the cattle kraal | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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