Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 209

They kept him with them while he pretended to send the two young men for the dacha, but privately he told them not to return.

Who acts: weapons, rest · What happens: keep, pretend, send, tell, not return · To what, where: rest, two young men, weapons · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (weapons, rest), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 pretended	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pretended	nsubj
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 send	mark
10	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pretended	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 men	nummod
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 send	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 dacha	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dacha	det
17	dacha	dacha	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 send	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
20	privately	privately	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 return	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 return	mark
26	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	weapons = weapon	rest		with species	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	pretend	past	rest				tree rules
3	send	to-infinitive	rest not said here	the two young men		for the dacha	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	rest		weapons = weapon	privately property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not return not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 209

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 209