Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 277

He went to the father of the girl and said: “You must give me your daughter to be my concubine, and I will herd the goats.”

Who acts: boy, You · What happens: go, say, give, be, herd · To what, where: daughter, concubine, goats · 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 (boy, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 girl	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	22 concubine	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 concubine	cop
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 concubine	nmod:poss
22	concubine	concubine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 herd	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 herd	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 herd	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 herd	aux
27	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 give	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 goats	det
29	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 herd	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	boy			to the father of the girl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	boy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	must	You		your daughter	me iobj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=Theme
4	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here	my concubine		my nmod:poss	tree rules
5	herd in a quote	future	boy	the goats			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goat=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 277

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 277