Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 144

He said in himself: “I will now go on a journey, for I am wiser than the councillors of my father, I being older than they.”

Who acts: Hlakanyana · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: journey · 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 (Hlakanyana), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 journey	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 journey	det
13	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wiser	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 wiser	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wiser	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wiser	cop
18	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 go	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 councillors	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 councillors	det
21	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wiser	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 father	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 councillors	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 older	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 older	nsubj
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 older	cop
28	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 go	parataxis
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 they	case
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 older	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana			in Hlakanyana	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	future	Hlakanyana	a journey	now		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location
3	is in a quote	present	Hlakanyana			than the councillors of my father; wise property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	gerund	Hlakanyana			than councillors = councillor; old property	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 144

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 144