Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 268

Hlakanyana said: “You are just a child; I shall not lend you my knife.”

Who acts: Hlakanyana, You · What happens: say, be, not lend · To what, where: child, knife, you · 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	Hlakanyana	Hlakanyana	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
5	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 child	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 child	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 child	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 lend	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 lend	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lend	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 lend	advmod
14	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 lend	obj
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knife	nmod:poss
17	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lend	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lend	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 lend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	You	a child		tree rules
3	not lend in a quote	shall	Hlakanyana	my knife	you	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient knife=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 268

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 268