Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 36

Then they made a plan that one should remain awake, and if anything happened, he should pinch the one next him, and that one should pinch the next, till all were awake.

Who acts: boys, plan, anything, thing, one, all · What happens: make, remain, happen, pinch, be · To what, where: plan, one, next

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 (boys, plan, anything, thing), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 remain	nsubj
7	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remain	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 remain	aux
9	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plan	acl:relcl
10	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 remain	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pinch	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pinch	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 happened	mark
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pinch	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happened	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pinch	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pinch	aux
19	pinch	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pinch	obj
22	next	next	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pinch	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pinch	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pinch	cc
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pinch	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 pinch	aux
29	pinch	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 next	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pinch	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 awake	punct
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 awake	mark
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 awake	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 awake	cop
36	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pinch	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	boys = boy	a plan	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
2	remain	should	a plan			one nsubj; awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	anything				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pinch	should	thing	the one		next chief	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	pinch	should	that one	the next			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent next=Theme
6	is	past	all			awake property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/9/36/

🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 36