Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 51

He fell just at the entrance of his grandfather’s house, and she picked him up and swallowed him also.

Who acts: boy, girl · What happens: fall, pick up, swallow · To what, where: entrance, boy

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 (boy, girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 entrance	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 entrance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 entrance	det
6	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grandfather	nmod:poss
9	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 grandfather	case
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entrance	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 picked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 picked	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 picked	nsubj
15	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 picked	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 picked	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swallowed	cc
19	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 picked	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 swallowed	obj
21	also	also	ADV	_	19 swallowed	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall	past	boy		the entrance of boy's grandfather's house	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at entrance=Location
2	pick up	past	girl	boy		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	swallow	past	girl not said here	boy		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 51

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Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 51