Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 57
Then Hlakanyana took the piece of meat and carried it out of the kraal.
Who acts: Hlakanyana · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: piece, kraal
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Hlakanyana | Hlakanyana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 meat | case |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 kraal | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kraal | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kraal | det |
| 14 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hlakanyana | the piece of meat | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | Hlakanyana not said here | piece | the kraal | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out kraal=Initial_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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