Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 145

The little cunning fellow went to a village, where he saw an old woman sitting beside her house.

Who acts: little cunning fellow, fellow, old woman · What happens: go, see, sit · To what, where: village, old woman, house

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 (little cunning fellow, fellow, old woman), 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	4 fellow	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellow	amod
3	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellow	amod
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 saw	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 woman	acl
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 house	nmod:poss
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	the little cunning fellow		a village	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
2	see	past	fellow	a old woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a old woman not said here		village's house	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside house=Location

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 145

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 145