Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 364

Hlakanyana promised to do so, but when the leopardess was gone he ate that one also.

Who acts: Hlakanyana, leopardess · What happens: promise, do, be, eat · To what, where: one

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, leopardess), 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	Hlakanyana	Hlakanyana	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 gone	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leopardess	det
10	leopardess	leopardess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ate	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ate	nsubj
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 one	mark
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 ate	obj
17	also	also	ADV	_	14 ate	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Hlakanyana			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hlakanyana not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the leopardess		gone property	tree rules
4	eat	past	Hlakanyana	one		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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 364

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 364