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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 6

When a Kaffir girl arrives at the age of puberty, messengers are sent by her father to all the neighbouring villages to invite the young women to attend the “Ntonjane.”

Who acts: Kaffir girl, father, young women · What happens: arrive, send, invite, attend · To what, where: age, messengers, neighbouring villages, young women, Ntonjane

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 (Kaffir girl, father, young women), 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

markdetcompoundnsubjadvclcasedetoblcasenmodpunctnsubj:passaux:passcasenmod:possoblcasedet:predetdetcompoundoblmarkadvcldetamodobjmarkxcompdetpunctobjpunctpunctrootWhenSCONJaDETKaffirPROPNgirlNOUNarrivesVERBatADPtheDETageNOUNofADPpubertyNOUN,PUNCTmessengersNOUNareAUXsentVERBbyADPherPRONfatherNOUNtoADPallDETtheDETneighbouringNOUNvillagesNOUNtoPARTinviteVERBtheDETyoungADJwomenNOUNtoPARTattendVERBtheDET“PUNCTNtonjanePROPN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_5 arrivesmark
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 girldet
3KaffirKaffirPROPNNumber=Sing4 girlcompound
4girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing5 arrivesnsubj
5arrivesarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 sentadvcl
6atatADP_8 agecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 agedet
8ageageNOUNNumber=Sing5 arrivesobl
9ofofADP_10 pubertycase
10pubertypubertyNOUNNumber=Sing8 agenmod
11,,PUNCT_5 arrivespunct
12messengersmessengerNOUNNumber=Plur14 sentnsubj:pass
13arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 sentaux:pass
14sentsendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
15bybyADP_17 fathercase
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 fathernmod:poss
17fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing14 sentobl
18totoADP_22 villagescase
19allallDETPronType=Tot22 villagesdet:predet
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 villagesdet
21neighbouringneighbouringNOUNNumber=Sing22 villagescompound
22villagesvillageNOUNNumber=Plur14 sentobl
23totoPART_24 invitemark
24inviteinviteVERBVerbForm=Inf14 sentadvcl
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 womendet
26youngyoungADJDegree=Pos27 womenamod
27womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur24 inviteobj
28totoPART_29 attendmark
29attendattendVERBVerbForm=Inf24 invitexcomp
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 Ntonjanedet
31“"PUNCT_32 Ntonjanepunct
32NtonjaneNtonjanePROPNNumber=Sing29 attendobj
33..PUNCT_14 sentpunct
34”"PUNCT_14 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrivepresenta Kaffir girlat the age of pubertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2sendpresent · passivegirl's fathermessengersall neighbouring villagesvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to village=Destination
3inviteto-infinitivegirl's father not said herethe young womenvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
4attend not said to happento-infinitivethe young women not said herethe Ntonjanevn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ntonjane=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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