Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 12

She said: “There is something in my ears; I would like to know what it is.

Who acts: voice, something, meat · What happens: say, be, like, know · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, something, meat), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
5	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 is	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ears	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ears	nmod:poss
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 something	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 like	aux
14	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 know	mark
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 like	xcomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 know	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 what	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	something in my ears	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like in a quote	would	voice		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	voice not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	present	meat		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.

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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 12