Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 19
Next day dancing is resumed in the same order, the guests usually arriving very early in the morning.
What happens: resume, arrive · To what, where: Next day dancing, same order
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: 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dancing | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dancing | compound |
| 3 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resumed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 resumed | aux:pass |
| 5 | resumed | resume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 order | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 order | amod |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resumed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guests | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 guests | det |
| 12 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 resumed | obl |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 arriving | advmod |
| 14 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 resumed | advcl |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 early | advmod |
| 16 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 arriving | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arriving | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resume | present · passive | Next day dancing | the same order | the guests obl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | arrive | gerund | morning | early, usually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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