Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 20
“You must make much beer, and invite many people to come and rejoice with me over this that has happened.”
Who acts: You, many people, this · What happens: make, invite, come, rejoice, happen · To what, where: much beer, many people
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, many people, this), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beer | amod |
| 6 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 invite | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 invite | cc |
| 9 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 invite | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invite | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rejoice | cc |
| 15 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 rejoice | obl |
| 18 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 22 happened | mark |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 happened | aux |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 rejoice | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | must | You | much beer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product | ||||
| 2 | invite in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | many people | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | many people not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rejoice in a quote | infinitive | many people not said here | with the man = man | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | happen in a quote | present · perfect | this | that nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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