Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 70

They followed still, and Sikulume was almost in their hands, when he threw off his mantle.

Who acts: others, Sikulume, hands · What happens: follow, be, throw off · To what, where: hands, mantle

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, hands), 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 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 followed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
6	Sikulume	Sikulume	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hands	cop
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	11 hands	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 threw	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 threw	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	nsubj
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 threw	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mantle	nmod:poss
18	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	others = other			still		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Sikulume		others's hands		others = other nmod:poss; almost property	tree rules
3	throw off	past	others's hands	Sikulume's mantle			Sikulume nsubj	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=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 70

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 70