Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 99

They let the riem go, when the river at once went back, taking Tangalimlibo with it.

Who acts: people, riem, river · What happens: let, go, go back, take · To what, where: riem, Tangalimlibo

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 (people, riem, river), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 riem	det
4	riem	riem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 went	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 went	obl
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
16	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taking	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	people	the riem			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the riem not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go back	past	the river				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	take	gerund	the river not said here		Tangalimlibo	with river	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tangalimlibo=Destination

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 99

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 99