Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 18

Their father took them inside and put them in a dark corner, where he covered them with skins.

Who acts: father · What happens: take, put, cover · To what, where: man, dark corner

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 (father), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 corner	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 corner	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 corner	amod
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 covered	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 covered	nsubj
16	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 corner	acl:relcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 covered	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 skins	case
19	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	man's father	man		inside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	put	infinitive	man's father not said here	man	a dark corner		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in corner=Destination
3	cover	past	father	man		with skins	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with skin=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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 18