Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 61

When the rain was over, the other girls said to the one who had beaten her brother: “Let us go and look after the little boy.”

Who acts: rain, other girls, one, us · What happens: be, say, beat, let, go, look · To what, where: one, brother, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rain, other girls, one, us), 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	5 over	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rain	det
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 over	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 over	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 over	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girls	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girls	amod
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 beaten	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 beaten	aux
16	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 one	acl:relcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beaten	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
21	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Let	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Let	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 look	cc
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Let	conj
26	after	after	ADP	_	29 boy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boy	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boy	amod
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rain				over property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the other girls		the one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic
3	beat	past · perfect	the one	girl's brother				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=Theme
4	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look in a quote	infinitive				after the little boy		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 61