Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 9

Now this was the chief of the animals; therefore, when she came on a hill over against him, the woman began to call out that she was looking for her children.

Who acts: this, woman · What happens: be, come, begin, call out, look · To what, where: chief, hill

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 (this, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 chief	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 chief	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chief	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chief	det
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chief	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chief	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 hill	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	over	over	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
19	against	against	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 call	mark
26	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 call	compound:prt
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 looking	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looking	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 looking	aux
31	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 call	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 children	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 children	nmod:poss
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 looking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the chief		now	of the animals	tree rules
2	come	past	woman		a hill		against hare; over, therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location
3	begin	past	the woman					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	call out speech: assert	to-infinitive	the woman not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	past · progressive	woman				for woman's children	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for child=Theme

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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 9