Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 309
The baboons replied: “If you will go for some water for us, we will give you food.”
Who acts: baboons, you, we · What happens: reply, go, give · To what, where: food, 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 (baboons, you, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baboons | det |
| 2 | baboons | baboon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the baboons | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | for some water; for us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for water=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | we | food | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient food=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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