Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 67
They came close to him again, when he threw the remainder of the fat on another stone.
Who acts: others, Sikulume · What happens: come, throw · To what, where: remainder, stone
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 (others, Sikulume), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 close | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 threw | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 remainder | det |
| 12 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fat | det |
| 15 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remainder | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 stone | det |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | others = other | again | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Sikulume | the remainder of the fat | another stone | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent remainder=Theme on stone=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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