Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 37

They bade their father farewell, and crept out quietly, that their mother might not hear them.

Who acts: man, mother · What happens: bade, creep out, not hear · To what, where: father, man

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bade	nsubj
2	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bade	obj
5	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	2 bade	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crept	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crept	cc
8	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bade	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 crept	compound:prt
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	8 crept	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 hear	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	17 hear	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 hear	advmod
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 crept	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hear	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bade	past	man	man's father	farewell property	tree rules
2	creep out	past	man not said here		quietly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not hear	might	man's mother	man		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 37