Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 204

But when Khakhabay took possession of the Amatolas, which he purchased from the Hottentot chieftainess Hoho, he found them infested by great numbers of bushmen.

Who acts: Khakhabay, Amatolas, dogs · What happens: take, purchase, find, infest, possess · To what, where: possession, Hottentot chieftainess, dogs, Amatolas

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Khakhabay, Amatolas, dogs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 took	advmod
3	Khakhabay	Khakhabay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	advcl
5	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Amatolas	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Amatolas	det
8	Amatolas	Amatolas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 possession	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 purchased	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 purchased	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 purchased	nsubj
12	purchased	purchase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Amatolas	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 chieftainess	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chieftainess	det
15	Hottentot	Hottentot	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 chieftainess	compound
16	chieftainess	chieftainess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 purchased	obl
17	Hoho	Hoho	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 chieftainess	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	obj
22	infested	infest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 found	xcomp
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 numbers	case
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 numbers	amod
25	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 infested	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 bushmen	case
27	bushmen	bushman	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 numbers	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Khakhabay	possession of the Amatolas			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
2	purchase	past	the Amatolas		the Hottentot chieftainess	Khakhabay nsubj	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from chieftainess=Source
3	find	past	Khakhabay	dogs = dog			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
4	infest	participle	dogs = dog not said here			by great numbers of bushmen	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	possess			the Amatolas			nom possession «act transitive»: of=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, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 204

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 204