Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 156

When the water began to get hot, he said: “Take me out, grandmother; I am in long enough.”

Who acts: water, Hlakanyana · What happens: begin, get, say, take out, be · To what, where: Hlakanyana · 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 (water, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
13	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Take	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 Take	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grandmother	punct
17	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Take	vocative
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 long	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 long	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 long	case
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the water			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	the water not said here		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take out in a quote	infinitive		Hlakanyana	grandmother vocative	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	Hlakanyana		enough, long 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 156

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 156