Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 33

The two children and the servant girl who told their father about them were also called, and they all sat down on the mat.

Who acts: two children, children · What happens: tell, call, sit down · To what, where: father, two children, mat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Mbulukazi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two children, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 children	nummod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 called	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 girl	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	compound
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	conj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 children	acl:relcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	obl
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 called	aux:pass
15	also	also	ADV	_	16 called	advmod
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sat	advmod
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 called	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 mat	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mat	det
25	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the two children and the servant girl		children's father		about children = child	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent father=Recipient about they=Topic
2	call	past · passive		the two children and the servant girl				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	sit down	past	children = child			the mat		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location

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 Mbulukazi., sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 33