Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 215

Guluwe then with his assagai put one after another to death, until, forgetting himself, he shouted his cry: “Tsi! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Who acts: Guluwe · What happens: put, forget, shout, cry · To what, where: one, Guluwe, cry

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 (Guluwe), 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	Guluwe	Guluwe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 put	advmod
3	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 assagai	nmod:poss
5	assagai	assagai	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 put	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 another	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 one	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forgetting	punct
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 forgetting	mark
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forgetting	punct
15	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 put	advcl
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 forgetting	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shouted	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shouted	nsubj
19	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cry	nmod:poss
21	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shouted	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Tsi	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Tsi	punct
24	Tsi	Tsi	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 shouted	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Tsi	punct
26	ha	ha	INTJ	_	24 Tsi	discourse
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
28	ha	ha	INTJ	_	6 put	discourse
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
30	ha	ha	INTJ	_	6 put	discourse
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
32	ha	ha	INTJ	_	6 put	discourse
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Guluwe	one	after another; then	to death; Guluwe's assagai nsubj	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
2	forget	gerund	Guluwe not said here	Guluwe			tree rules
3	shout speech: express	past	Guluwe	Guluwe's cry		Tsi obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
4	cry		Guluwe				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 215