Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 224

He said to them: “You foolish fellows, you only sit here and eat nothing.

Who acts: Hlakanyana, keepers · What happens: say, fellow, sit, eat · To what, where: keepers, nothing · 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, keepers), 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 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fellows	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 fellows	punct
7	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 fellows	nsubj
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellows	amod
9	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sit	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sit	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 sit	advmod
13	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sit	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eat	cc
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sit	conj
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 eat	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana		keepers = keeper		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fellow in a quote		keepers = keeper				tree rules
3	sit in a quote	present	keepers = keeper			here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat in a quote	present	keepers = keeper not said here	nothing			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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 224

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 224