Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 264
Hlakanyana replied: “Just give us something to eat first; look at our stomachs and behold the pinchings of hunger.”
Who acts: Hlakanyana · What happens: reply, give, eat, look · To what, where: something, us · 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 | Hlakanyana | Hlakanyana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 5 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 something | acl |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 eat | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 stomachs | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 stomachs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | stomachs | stomach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pinchings | cc |
| 18 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 20 pinchings | discourse |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pinchings | det |
| 20 | pinchings | pinching | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stomachs | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hunger | case |
| 22 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pinchings | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Hlakanyana | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | something | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | at our stomachs and the pinchings of hunger | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stomach=Theme |
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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