Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 12

A portion of it was to be placed upon some coals, over which the man was to sit, covering himself and the fire with his mantle so as to be thoroughly smoked.

Who acts: man · What happens: place, be, cover, smoke · To what, where: portion, coals, plant

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 portion	det
2	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 portion	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	aux:pass
6	to	to	PART	_	8 placed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 placed	aux:pass
8	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 coals	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 coals	det
11	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 placed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sit	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sit	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sit	mark
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 placed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 covering	punct
21	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sit	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 covering	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fire	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 himself	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 mantle	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mantle	nmod:poss
28	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covering	obl
29	so	so	ADV	_	34 smoked	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 smoked	mark
31	to	to	PART	_	34 smoked	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 smoked	aux:pass
33	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	34 smoked	advmod
34	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 covering	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		a portion of method	some coals		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon coal=Destination
2	is	past	the man			which obl; sit property	tree rules
3	cover	gerund	the man not said here	plant		with plant's mantle	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with mantle=Theme
4	smoke	to-infinitive · passive	the man not said here			thoroughly property	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»

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, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 12

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 12