🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 15

When all is ready, four of the girls step out of the front row and dance, the rest singing; and when these are tired four others step out, and so on, until all the girls present have danced.

Who acts: all, girls, rest, these, four others · What happens: be, step out, sing, dance · To what, where: front row, girls

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 (all, girls, rest, these), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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