Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 85
The boy went, but he hid a piece of meat and took it with him.
Who acts: boy · What happens: go, hide, take · To what, where: piece, meat
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 (boy), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hid | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 hid | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hid | nsubj |
| 7 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 piece | det |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 meat | case |
| 11 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 piece | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | boy | a piece of meat | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the boy not said here | meat | with boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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