Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 19
But just then they heard her coming, so they went into Magoda’s house and hid themselves, for he lived in one house and his mother in another.
Who acts: pots, Magoda · What happens: hear, come, go, hide, live · To what, where: house, pots, one house
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pots, Magoda), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 heard | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 heard | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 13 | Magoda | Magoda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Magoda | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hid | cc |
| 17 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 hid | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 lived | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hid | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 house | nummod |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lived | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mother | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 another | case |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 mother | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | pots = pot | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | pots = pot not said here | One nmod:poss | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | pots = pot | Magoda's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | pots = pot not said here | pots = pot | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 5 | live | past | Magoda | one house and Magoda's mother in another | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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