Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 52

She found only the old people and the children of the village at home, all the others being at work in the gardens.

Who acts: girl, others · What happens: find, be · To what, where: old people, work

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 (girl, others), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 people	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 children	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 people	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 children	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 village	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 others	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 others	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 others	det
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 work	nsubj
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 work	cop
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 work	case
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 gardens	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gardens	det
24	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 work	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	girl	the old people and the children of the village at home					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
2	is	gerund	all others			work		in the gardens	tree rules

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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 52