Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 12

The animals returned in the evening; and while their pots were on the fire, she threw down the stone into one of them.

Who acts: animals, pots, woman · What happens: return, be, throw down · To what, where: fire, stone

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Glutton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, pots, woman), 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 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 threw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 threw	cc
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 fire	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pots	nmod:poss
11	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fire	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fire	cop
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fire	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	nsubj
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 threw	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stone	det
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 threw	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 one	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the animals			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	animals's pots		the fire			tree rules
3	throw down	past	woman	the stone			into one of animals result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stone=Theme into one=Result

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 the Glutton., sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 12