Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 79

Every night the nurse took the child to the river, when its mother came out and suckled it.

Who acts: nurse, mother · What happens: take, come out, suckle · To what, where: child, river

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, mother), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 suckled	cc
18	suckled	suckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 suckled	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the nurse	the child	the river	night		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to river=Destination
2	come out	past	river's mother				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	suckle	past	river's mother not said here	river				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 79