Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 24

The next morning Nomagoda (so called because she was the mother of Magoda) went out to hunt, but she did not go far, so the children could not get away.

Who acts: woman, next morning, children · What happens: call, be, go out, hunt, not go, not get away · To what, where: next morning, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, next morning, children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
4	Nomagoda	Nomagoda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 morning	appos
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 called	advmod
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 morning	acl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 mother	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mother	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mother	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Magoda	case
14	Magoda	Magoda	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mother	nmod
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hunt	mark
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 go	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 go	advmod
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	parataxis
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 go	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 get	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 get	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 get	advmod
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	parataxis
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 get	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the next morning not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	woman	the mother	of Magoda	tree rules
3	go out	past	the next morning		out property	tree rules
4	hunt	to-infinitive	the next morning not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not go	past · do-support	woman		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not get away	could	the children		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 24