Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 32
This ceremony is frequently attended with gross licentiousness.
What happens: attend · To what, where: ceremony
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 ceremony | det |
| 2 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 attended | aux:pass |
| 4 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 5 attended | advmod |
| 5 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 licentiousness | case |
| 7 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 licentiousness | amod |
| 8 | licentiousness | licentiousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attended | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | present · passive | this ceremony | with gross licentiousness; frequently property | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal |
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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