Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 24
The following ceremony takes place on the occasion of a chief’s daughter coming out of the house in which she was concealed during the twenty-four days:—
Who acts: following ceremony, daughter · What happens: follow, take, come out, conceal, occasion · To what, where: place, occasion, house, ceremony, daughter
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 (following ceremony, daughter), 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 | 3 ceremony | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ceremony | amod |
| 3 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 occasion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 occasion | det |
| 8 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 daughter | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 occasion | nmod |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 daughter | acl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 concealed | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 concealed | aux:pass |
| 23 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 house | acl:relcl |
| 24 | during | during | ADP | _ | 29 days | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 days | det |
| 26 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 four | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 twenty | punct |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 days | nummod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 concealed | obl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | take | present | the following ceremony | place | the occasion of a chief's daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on occasion=Destination | |||
| 3 | come out | gerund | a chief's daughter not said here | the house | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result | ||||
| 4 | conceal | past · passive | ceremony | the house | day | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in which=Location | |||
| 5 | occasion | a chief's daughter | nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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