Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 21

They chased them for several days, till at last the birds were exhausted, when each of the boys caught one.

Who acts: birds, each · What happens: chase, exhaust, catch · To what, where: boys, birds, one

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, each), 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 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 last	punct
8	till	till	ADP	_	10 last	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chased	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 exhausted	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 exhausted	aux:pass
14	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 last	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 caught	mark
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 caught	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 boys	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boys	det
20	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 each	nmod
21	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 caught	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	chase	past	birds = bird	boys = boy	day	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	exhaust	past · passive		the birds		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	catch	past	each of the boys	one		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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 Sikulume., sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 21