Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 81

The children returned to their grandfather, and the people came there and made them rulers of the country, because it was through them the cannibal was brought to death.

Who acts: children, people, country · What happens: return, come, make, be, bring · To what, where: children, people, death

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 (children, people, country), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 grandfather	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grandfather	nmod:poss
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	parataxis
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rulers	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 them	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 them	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 them	cop
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	nsubj:pass
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cannibal	det
27	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brought	aux:pass
29	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 made	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 death	case
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	the children			to children's grandfather result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to grandfather=Result
2	come	past	the people		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	the people not said here	children = child		rulers of the country obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary ruler=Product
4	is	past	country			through people	tree rules
5	bring	past · passive		people	death	the cannibal nsubj:pass	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to death=Destination

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 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 81