Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 14

He came out, and when he saw them he was sorry, and said: “Why did you come here, my dear children?

Who acts: grandfather, you · What happens: come out, see, be, say, come · To what, where: man, dear children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sorry	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sorry	cop
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 come	advmod
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 come	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 children	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 children	nmod:poss
25	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 children	amod
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	grandfather			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	see	past	grandfather	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	is	past	grandfather			sorry property	tree rules
4	say speech: ask	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come in a quote	past · do-support	you	my dear children	here		vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 14