Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 38

At midnight the woman woke up, and when she found the children were gone, she took her axe and went after them.

Who acts: woman, children · What happens: wake up, find, be, take, go · To what, where: axe · 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 (woman, children), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	nsubj
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 woke	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 found	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 children	det
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gone	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	cop
15	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 found	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woke	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 axe	nmod:poss
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	the woman		midnight		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	find	past	woman				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the children			gone property	tree rules
4	take	past	woman	woman's axe			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
5	go	past	woman not said here		after man		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 38