Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 97

Then his mother hid herself in a bush; an old woman that was there covered herself with ashes, and Kenkebe climbed up into a tree, with the breast of the eland in his hand.

Who acts: mother, Kenkebe · What happens: hide, cover, climb up · To what, where: mother, bush, old woman, tree

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 (mother, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hid	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 hid	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bush	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bush	det
8	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	nsubj:pass
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 covered	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 covered	aux:pass
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 covered	advmod
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hid	conj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 covered	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 ashes	case
19	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 climbed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 climbed	cc
22	Kenkebe	Kenkebe	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 climbed	nsubj
23	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	parataxis
24	up	up	ADV	_	23 climbed	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 tree	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 climbed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 breast	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 breast	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 breast	det
31	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 climbed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 eland	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 eland	det
34	eland	eland	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 breast	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hand	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hand	nmod:poss
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 climbed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	boy's mother	mother	a bush	then		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in bush=Location
2	cover	past · passive		a old woman	there		with ashes; that nsubj:pass; mother obj	tree rules
3	climb up	past	Kenkebe		a tree		with the breast of the eland; in boy's hand	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination

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 97

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 97