Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 13

The children were hungry, so the woman with her pieces of iron cut some pieces of flesh from the animal’s ribs.

Who acts: children, woman · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: pieces, ribs

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, 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 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hungry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	14 cut	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	nsubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pieces	nmod:poss
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 woman	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 iron	case
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pieces	nmod
14	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	conj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 pieces	det
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 flesh	case
18	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pieces	nmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	23 ribs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 animal	det
21	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ribs	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 animal	case
23	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children					hungry property	tree rules
2	cut	present	the woman with woman's pieces of iron	some pieces of flesh		the animal's ribs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent piece=Product from rib=Material

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, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 13