Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 59

His sister compelled him to sit down; but as soon as they went on, he followed; then his sister beat him, and left him in the path.

Who acts: sister, legs, husband · What happens: compel, sit down, go on, follow, beat, leave · To what, where: husband, path

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 (sister, legs, husband), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 compelled	nsubj
3	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 compelled	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 compelled	xcomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sit	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 went	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 compelled	parataxis
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 followed	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 followed	nsubj
18	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 beat	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 beat	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sister	nmod:poss
22	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beat	nsubj
23	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 compelled	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 beat	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 left	cc
27	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 beat	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 path	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 path	det
31	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 compelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compel	past	husband's sister	husband				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
2	sit down	to-infinitive	husband's sister not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go on	past	legs = leg				soon property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	past	husband					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	beat	past	husband's sister	husband		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
6	leave	past	husband's sister not said here	husband	the path			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in path=Location

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 59

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 59