Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 110

The old man went; and as soon as he was alone, Hlakanyana ate the meat which was in the pot.

Who acts: old man, Hlakanyana, meat · What happens: go, be, eat · To what, where: meat, pot

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Hlakanyana, meat), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ate	cc
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ate	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 alone	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 alone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 alone	cop
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 soon	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ate	punct
14	Hlakanyana	Hlakanyana	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ate	nsubj
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 meat	det
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ate	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 pot	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pot	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pot	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pot	det
22	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meat	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Hlakanyana			alone property	tree rules
3	eat	past	Hlakanyana	the meat		soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
4	is	past	the meat		the pot		tree rules

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 110

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 110