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title: The marriage festivities of one of the ancients, Mapassa by name, ar… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The marriage festivities of one of the ancients, Mapassa by name, are said to have been carried on for a whole year. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 10

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The marriage festivities of one of the ancients, Mapassa by name, are said to have been carried on for a whole year.

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**What happens:** say, carry on · **To what, where:** marriage festivities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:26:10
# text = The marriage festivities of one of the ancients, Mapassa by name, are said to have been carried on for a whole year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ancients	ancient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Mapassa	Mapassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the marriage festivities of one of the ancients |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **carry on** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument» |

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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.

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**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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