Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 89

Then they made a plan that the husband of Tangalimlibo should hide himself in the reeds and try and catch his wife when she came out of the water.

Who acts: children, husband, girl · What happens: make, hide, try, catch, come out · To what, where: plan, husband, reeds, wife, water

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 (children, husband, girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 hide	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 husband	det
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hide	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Tangalimlibo	case
10	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 husband	nmod
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hide	aux
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plan	acl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 hide	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 reeds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reeds	det
16	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hide	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 try	cc
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hide	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 catch	cc
20	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 try	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 catch	obj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 came	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 catch	advcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 water	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	children = child	a plan		then	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
2	hide	should	the husband of Tangalimlibo	husband	the reeds		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in reed=Location
3	try	infinitive	the husband of Tangalimlibo not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	catch	infinitive	the husband of Tangalimlibo not said here	husband's wife			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
5	come out	past	girl	the water			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result

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 89

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 89