Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 24
After this he came to the stream where the cannibals drew their water, and concealed himself among the reeds which grew on its banks.
Who acts: river, cannibals, reeds · What happens: come, draw, conceal, grow · To what, where: stream, water, river, reeds, banks
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, cannibals, reeds), 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 | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stream | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 drew | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cannibals | det |
| 10 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stream | acl:relcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 water | nmod:poss |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 concealed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 concealed | cc |
| 16 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 concealed | obj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 reeds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reeds | det |
| 20 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 concealed | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reeds | acl:relcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 banks | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 banks | nmod:poss |
| 25 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | river | the stream | after this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | draw | past | the cannibals | cannibals's water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conceal | past | river not said here | river | the reeds | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient among reed=Location | |||
| 4 | grow | past | the reeds | water's banks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=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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