Kaffir folk-lore, Another Story of Kenkebe., sentence 13

When he was gone out, his little boy went to the place where he had been sitting.

Who acts: little boy, Kenkebe · What happens: go out, go, sit · To what, where: Kenkebe, place

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Another 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 (little boy, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux:pass
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 gone	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boy	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 sitting	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sitting	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sitting	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 sitting	aux
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 place	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go out	past · passive		Kenkebe		tree rules
2	go	past	Kenkebe's little boy		the place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	sit	past · perfect · progressive	Kenkebe			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, Another Story of Kenkebe., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Another Story of Kenkebe., sentence 13