Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 146

He said to her: “Would you like to be made young, grandmother?”

Who acts: fellow, village · What happens: say, like, make · To what, where: village, grandmother · 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 (fellow, village), 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	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
7	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 like	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	12 made	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	aux:pass
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 like	ccomp
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grandmother	punct
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	fellow		village		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	village	grandmother			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	make not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	village not said here			young property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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 146

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 146