Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 74
He took the skin and put it upon Mbambozozele, so that the eland thought it was her calf that sucked before Kenkebe milked her.
Who acts: Mbambozozele, eland, calf, Kenkebe · What happens: take, put, think, be, suck, milk · To what, where: skin, calf, wife · 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 (Mbambozozele, eland, calf, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 skin | det |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Mbambozozele | case |
| 9 | Mbambozozele | Mbambozozele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 thought | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eland | det |
| 14 | eland | eland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 calf | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 calf | cop |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 calf | nmod:poss |
| 19 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sucked | nsubj |
| 21 | sucked | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 calf | acl:relcl |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 milked | mark |
| 23 | Kenkebe | Kenkebe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 milked | nsubj |
| 24 | milked | milk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sucked | ccomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 milked | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Mbambozozele | the skin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Mbambozozele not said here | calf | upon Mbambozozele | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon mbambozozele=Destination | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the eland | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | eland | wife's calf | wife nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | suck | past | wife's calf | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | milk | past | Kenkebe | wife | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source |
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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