Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 353

He also made the door of the house very small so that the mother of the cubs could not come in, and then he made a little hole in the ground at the back so that he could go out.

Who acts: Hlakanyana, mother · What happens: make, not come in, go out · To what, where: door, little hole, ground

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 (Hlakanyana, mother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 small	advmod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cubs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cubs	det
17	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 mother	nmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 come	advmod
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 made	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hole	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hole	amod
29	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hole	nmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 back	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 back	det
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obl
36	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 go	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 so	fixed
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 go	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	advcl
41	out	out	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Hlakanyana	the door of the house			small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Product
2	not come in	could	the mother of the cubs					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	Hlakanyana	a little hole	the ground	then	at the back	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
4	go out	could	Hlakanyana				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 353