Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 14

When they came to a valley close by his home, he told his sisters-in-law that they could now go back to their father.

Who acts: sisters, famine · What happens: come, tell, go back · To what, where: valley, sisters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, famine), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 valley	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 valley	det
6	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 valley	amod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 home	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 close	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sisters	nmod:poss
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	iobj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 law	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 law	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 in	punct
19	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sisters	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 go	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	ccomp
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 father	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	sisters = sister		a valley			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to valley=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	famine	famine's sisters and law				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go back	could	sisters = sister			now	to sisters's father result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result

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 Kenkebe., sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 14