Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 83

They then cut the eland up and wanted to cook it, but there was no fire.

Who acts: heads, fire · What happens: cut up, want, cook, be · To what, where: eland, stone

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 (heads, fire), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cut	advmod
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eland	det
5	eland	eland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cook	mark
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cook	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	cut up	past	heads = head	the eland		then	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eland=Product
2	want	past	heads = head not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	heads = head not said here	stone			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	be	past	no fire		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 83