Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 175

When he got a little way off, he called out: “You are eating your mother.

Who acts: Hlakanyana, You · What happens: get, call out, eat · To what, where: little way, mother · 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, You), 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	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 called	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
7	off	off	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	nsubj
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 called	compound:prt
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 eating	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 eating	punct
14	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 eating	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eating	aux
16	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 called	advcl
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eating	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	Hlakanyana	a little way	off property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2	call out speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat in a quote	present · progressive	You	your mother		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 175

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 175