Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 77

He turned the stone into a hut, and they all went inside, the little man with them.

Who acts: man, hands · What happens: turn, go · To what, where: stone, hut, little man

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 (man, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 went	advmod
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
13	inside	inside	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 man	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	man	the stone		a hut			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stone=Theme into hut=Trajectory
2	go	past	hands = hand	the little man with others				inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 77