Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 90
When the boys were asleep, he got up and went to the cattle kraal.
Who acts: boys, boy · What happens: be, get up, go · To what, where: cattle 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 (boys, boy), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 asleep | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asleep | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asleep | cop |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 got | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 got | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 kraal | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kraal | det |
| 14 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kraal | compound |
| 15 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boys | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | past | boy not said here | the cattle kraal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to 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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