Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 18
Then he carried the bags one by one, and hid them in a cave under a great rock that was there.
Who acts: father, great rock · What happens: carry, hide, be · To what, where: bags, cave
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 (father, great rock), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 carried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bags | det |
| 5 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 carried | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hid | cc |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hid | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hid | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 rock | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rock | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rock | amod |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hid | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 there | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 there | cop |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 rock | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | father | the bags | then | one obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme bag=Beneficiary one=Value | ||
| 2 | hide | past | father not said here | bags = bag | a cave | under a great rock | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in cave=Location | ||
| 3 | is | past | a great rock | there property | 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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