Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 65
He cut an ear off the calf and roasted it in the fire.
Who acts: Tumtumse · What happens: cut, roast · To what, where: ear
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 (Tumtumse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ear | det |
| 4 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 calf | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 calf | det |
| 7 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 roasted | cc |
| 9 | roasted | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 roasted | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roasted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Tumtumse | a ear | off the calf | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient off calf=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | roast | past | Tumtumse not said here | ear | in the fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in fire=Instrument |
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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