Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 297

He said to the cannibals: “You can take which one of these oxen you like instead of me.”

Who acts: One, cannibals · What happens: say, take, like · To what, where: cannibals, one, oxen · 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 (One, cannibals), 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	_	5 cannibals	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cannibals	det
5	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 oxen	case
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 oxen	det
15	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
17	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 oxen	acl:relcl
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 me	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 like	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	One		the cannibals		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cannibal=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	can	the cannibals = cannibal	which one of this oxen			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	like in a quote	present	the cannibals = cannibal	this oxen not said here		instead One	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ox=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 297

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 297