Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 36

Then their father shook them, and said they must go while their mother was sleeping.

Who acts: father, man, mother · What happens: shake, say, go, sleep · To what, where: man · 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 (father, man, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 shook	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 sleeping	mark
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sleeping	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sleeping	aux
16	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 go	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	shake	past	man's father	man	then	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	man's father not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	must	man			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sleep	past · progressive	man's mother			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 36