Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 4

Demane went out hunting by day, and told his sister that she was not to roast any meat while he was absent, lest the cannibals should discover their retreat by the smell.

Who acts: Demane, Demazana, cave, cannibals · What happens: go out, hunt, tell, not be, be, discover · To what, where: sister, retreat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demane, Demazana, cave, cannibals), 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	Demane	Demane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 day	case
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 roast	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 roast	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 roast	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 roast	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 roast	mark
17	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 meat	det
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 roast	obj
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 absent	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 absent	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 absent	cop
23	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 roast	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 discover	punct
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	29 discover	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cannibals	det
27	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 discover	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 discover	aux
29	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 retreat	nmod:poss
31	retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 discover	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 smell	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 smell	det
34	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 discover	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Demane					tree rules
2	hunt	gerund	Demane not said here			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past			cave's sister			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not is not said to happen	past	Demazana				any meat obj; roast property	tree rules
5	is	past	cave				absent property	tree rules
6	discover	should	the cannibals	Demane's retreat			by the smell	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retreat=Topic

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 Demane and Demazana., sentence 4

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Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 4