Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 93

When he came near his own house, he cried out: “Hide yourselves, you that are at home.”

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: come, cry out, hide, be · To what, where: own house, yourselves, home · 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 (boy, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
4	near	near	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 cried	compound:prt
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Hide	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hide	punct
14	Hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
15	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 Hide	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 home	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 home	nsubj
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 home	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 home	cop
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 home	case
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Hide	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Hide	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	boy		boy's own house		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near house=Location
2	cry out speech: express	past	boy				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hide in a quote	infinitive	boy not said here	yourselves			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	you		home	that nsubj	tree rules

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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 93