Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 74
The man called all his friends, and a great retinue prepared to accompany the bride.
Who acts: man · What happens: call, prepare, accompany · To what, where: friends, great retinue, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 retinue | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 man | acl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 friends | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 retinue | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 retinue | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 retinue | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 retinue | amod |
| 11 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 retinue | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 accompany | mark |
| 14 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prepared | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bride | det |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accompany | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 retinue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the man not said here | man's friends | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prepare | participle | a great retinue the man not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | accompany not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bride | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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