Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 28
The piece that Kenkebe put on the fire was some that he had brought home with him.
Who acts: Kenkebe · What happens: put, bring · To what, where: piece, fire
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 (Kenkebe), 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 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 put | obj |
| 4 | Kenkebe | Kenkebe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 piece | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 brought | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 brought | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Kenkebe | the piece | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the piece | with Kenkebe; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
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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