Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 98

When it came close to the village, the men who were pulling at the riem saw it, and became frightened.

Who acts: water, men · What happens: come, pull, see, become, frighten · To what, where: 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 (water, men), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	advcl
4	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 saw	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pulling	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pulling	aux
13	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 men	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 riem	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 riem	det
16	riem	riem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pulling	obl
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 became	cc
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	conj
22	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 became	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	water		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	past · progressive	the men		at the riem	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at riem=Theme
3	see	past	the men	water		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	become	past	the men not said here			tree rules
5	frighten	participle	the men not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 98

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 98