Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 28

She cooked for them and their father the animal she had brought home, and the dead man for herself.

Who acts: mother · What happens: cook, bring · To what, where: animal

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 (mother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	nsubj
2	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 father	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 them	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cooked	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 animal	acl:relcl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 brought	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 man	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cooked	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 herself	case
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 man	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	mother	the animal				for children = child; the dead man for mother obl	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent animal=Product for they=Beneficiary
2	bring	past · perfect	mother	the animal not said here				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination

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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 28