Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 51

So they called them by name, and the dogs came running to the tree and ate up the cannibal, who was too tired to make her escape.

Who acts: dogs, cannibal, Ntengu · What happens: call, come, run, eat up, be, make · To what, where: eyes, cannibal, Ntengu · 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 (dogs, cannibal, Ntengu), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 name	case
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dogs	det
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
12	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 running	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 ate	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cannibal	det
20	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tired	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 tired	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tired	cop
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 tired	advmod
25	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cannibal	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tired	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 make	obj
29	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 make	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	dogs = dog	eyes = eye	by name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	come	past	the dogs			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	gerund	the dogs not said here		to the tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result
4	eat up	past	the dogs not said here	the cannibal		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannibal=Patient
5	is	past	the cannibal		tired property	tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	the cannibal not said here	Ntengu		tree rules
7	escape	infinitive	Ntengu not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 51