Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 42

Having told their mother, she took a knife and cut it open, when people came out, and cattle, and dogs.

Who acts: mother, people · What happens: have, tell, take, cut, come out · To what, where: mother, knife, cattle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, people), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 took	advcl
2	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knife	det
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cut	cc
11	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cut	obj
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cut	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cattle	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cattle	cc
21	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dogs	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dogs	cc
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cattle	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	mother not said here				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle	mother not said here		glutton's mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
3	take	past	mother	a knife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	cut	past	mother not said here	knife		open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	come out	past	people	cattle and dogs		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 42