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title: This dancing, with intervals of rest and feasting, continues as long… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: This dancing, with intervals of rest and feasting, continues as long as the bridegroom’s relatives supply oxen for slaughter. Who acts: dancing, relatives. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 48

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This dancing, with intervals of rest and feasting, continues as long as the bridegroom’s relatives supply oxen for slaughter.

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**Who acts:** dancing, relatives · **What happens:** continue, supply · **To what, where:** oxen

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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 (dancing, relatives), 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:pg71335:28:48
# text = This dancing, with intervals of rest and feasting, continues as long as the bridegroom’s relatives supply oxen for slaughter.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	intervals	interval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	supply	supply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | present | this dancing and intervals of rest and feasting |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **supply** | present | the bridegroom's relatives | oxen |  |  |  | for slaughter | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ox=Theme for slaughter=Recipient |

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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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