Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 385

In the night when all were sleeping, Hlakanyana went up the tree of the chief and ate all the fruit of it.

Who acts: all, Hlakanyana · What happens: sleep, go up, eat · To what, where: tree, fruit

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 (all, Hlakanyana), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sleeping	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sleeping	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sleeping	aux
7	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 night	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
9	Hlakanyana	Hlakanyana	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 chief	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chief	det
16	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ate	cc
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 fruit	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fruit	det
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fruit	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	all			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go up	past	Hlakanyana	the tree of the chief	night	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tree=Extent
3	eat	past	Hlakanyana not said here	all fruit of fruit		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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 385

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 385