Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 48

In playing, the arms are thrown out very quickly, and the words are rapidly uttered, so that a stranger might fancy there was neither order nor rule observed.

Who acts: stranger, order · What happens: play, throw out, utter, fancy, be, observe · To what, where: arms, words, rule

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, order), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 playing	mark
2	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thrown	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 playing	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 arms	det
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thrown	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thrown	aux:pass
7	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 thrown	compound:prt
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 quickly	advmod
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 thrown	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 uttered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 uttered	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 uttered	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 uttered	aux:pass
16	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	17 uttered	advmod
17	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 thrown	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fancy	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	24 fancy	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 fancy	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stranger	det
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fancy	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fancy	aux
24	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thrown	conj
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fancy	ccomp
27	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	28 order	det
28	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 rule	cc
30	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 order	conj
31	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 rule	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	gerund					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw out	present · passive		the arms		quickly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	utter speech: other	present · passive		the words		rapidly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	fancy	might	a stranger				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	neither order nor rule		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	observe	participle		rule not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 48

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 48