Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 97
When the young men saw that, they cut a big hole in the side of the inabulele, and all the people and the cattle were delivered.
Who acts: young men, cattle · What happens: see, cut, deliver · To what, where: that, big hole, side, people
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 (young men, cattle), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hole | amod |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 inabulele | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inabulele | det |
| 18 | inabulele | inabulele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 delivered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 delivered | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 people | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cattle | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cattle | det |
| 26 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 people | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 delivered | aux:pass |
| 28 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cut | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the young men | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | cattle | a big hole | the side of the inabulele | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | |||
| 3 | deliver | past · passive | all people and the cattle | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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