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description: The following ceremony takes place on the occasion of a chief’s daughter coming out of the house in which she was concealed during the twenty-four days:— Who acts: following ceremony, daughter. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of N
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 24

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The following ceremony takes place on the occasion of a chief’s daughter coming out of the house in which she was concealed during the twenty-four days:—

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**Who acts:** following ceremony, daughter · **What happens:** follow, take, come out, conceal, occasion · **To what, where:** place, occasion, house, ceremony, daughter

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following ceremony, daughter), 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:pg71335:30:24
# text = The following ceremony takes place on the occasion of a chief’s daughter coming out of the house in which she was concealed during the twenty-four days:—
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	during	during	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | the following ceremony | place |  | the occasion of a chief's daughter |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on occasion=Destination |
| 3 | **come out** | gerund | a chief's daughter *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result |
| 4 | **conceal** | past · passive |  | ceremony |  | the house | day |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in which=Location |
| 5 | **occasion** |  |  | a chief's daughter |  |  |  |  | nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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