Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 3

After they had collected the imbola, they were about to return home, when one of them proposed that they should bathe in a large pool of water that was there.

Who acts: homes, one, large pool · What happens: collect, be, return, propose, bathe · To what, where: homes

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (homes, one, large pool), 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	SCONJ	_	4 collected	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 collected	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 collected	aux
4	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 about	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 imbola	det
6	imbola	imbola	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collected	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 collected	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 about	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 about	cop
10	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 return	mark
12	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 about	xcomp
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 return	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 proposed	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 proposed	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 proposed	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 about	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bathe	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bathe	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bathe	aux
23	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 proposed	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 pool	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pool	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pool	amod
27	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bathe	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 water	case
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pool	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 there	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 there	cop
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 pool	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	collect	past · perfect · passive		homes = home	the imbola obj	tree rules
2	is	past	homes = home		about property	tree rules
3	return	to-infinitive	homes = home not said here		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	propose	past	one of homes			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bathe	should	homes = home		in a large pool of water	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pool=Theme
6	is	past	a large pool of water		there property	tree rules

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 the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 3