Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 28

When her children became men, they were out hunting one day, and saw a monstrous cannibal, who was sticking fast in a mud hole.

Who acts: children, monstrous cannibal · What happens: become, hunt, see, stick · To what, where: men, monstrous cannibal, mud hole

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, monstrous cannibal), 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	SCONJ	_	4 became	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 children	nmod:poss
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	advcl
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hunting	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hunting	aux
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 were	compound:prt
10	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 became	advcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hunting	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cannibal	det
17	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cannibal	amod
18	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sticking	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sticking	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sticking	aux
22	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 cannibal	acl
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 sticking	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 hole	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hole	det
26	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hole	compound
27	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sticking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	woman's children	men				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	hunt	past · progressive	children = child			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past		a monstrous cannibal				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cannibal=Stimulus
4	stick	past · progressive	a monstrous cannibal		a mud hole		fast property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hole=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, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 28