Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 35

After eating, he went outside, but he had dropped one of his nongwes by the fire.

Who acts: Kenkebe · What happens: eat, go, drop · To what, where: one

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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 eating	mark
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 eating	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dropped	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 dropped	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dropped	aux
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 went	parataxis
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 dropped	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 nongwes	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nongwes	nmod:poss
15	nongwes	nongwe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 fire	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nongwes	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	Kenkebe not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	Kenkebe		outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drop	past · perfect	Kenkebe	one of Kenkebe's nongwes by the fire		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 35