Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 28

So they arranged that he should smear himself with mud and go to the top of a high hill, and when he was coming down she would tell the cannibals who he was.

Who acts: cannibals, river, sister · What happens: arrange, smear, go, come down, tell · To what, where: river, top, cannibals · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cannibals, river, sister), 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 arranged	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arranged	nsubj
3	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 smear	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 smear	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 smear	aux
7	smear	smear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 arranged	ccomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 smear	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 mud	case
10	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smear	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 smear	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 hill	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hill	det
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hill	amod
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 coming	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 coming	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 coming	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 coming	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 coming	aux
25	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 arranged	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 coming	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 tell	aux
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 coming	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cannibals	det
31	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tell	obj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 was	nsubj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 was	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cannibals	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrange	past	cannibals = cannibal				tree rules
2	smear	should	river	river		with mud	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with mud=Theme
3	go	infinitive	river not said here		the top of a high hill		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location
4	come down	past · progressive	river			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	would	sister	the cannibals			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cannibal=Recipient

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, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 28