Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 35

After a while the cannibal went to sleep, when they crept out, first putting two blocks of wood in their places, and ran away as fast as they could.

Who acts: cannibal, children · What happens: go, sleep, creep out, put, run away · To what, where: two blocks, places

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 (cannibal, 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cannibal	det
5	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crept	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 crept	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crept	nsubj
12	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 crept	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 putting	punct
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 putting	advmod
16	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 crept	advcl
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 blocks	nummod
18	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 putting	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 wood	case
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blocks	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 places	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 places	nmod:poss
23	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 putting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 ran	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 could	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 could	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fast	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the cannibal			while		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the cannibal not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	creep out	past	children = child					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put	gerund	children = child not said here	two blocks of wood	children's places		first property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent block=Theme in place=Destination
5	run away	past	the cannibal not said here				away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 35