Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 317

The hyena said: “No, I will not give you any; it is too little even for me.”

Who acts: hyena · What happens: say, not give, be · To what, where: any, 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 (hyena), 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 hyena	det
2	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
6	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 give	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 No	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 give	advmod
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 give	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 little	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 little	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 little	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 little	advmod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 give	conj
19	even	even	ADV	_	21 me	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 little	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the hyena				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not give in a quote	future	the hyena = hyena	any	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient any=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	hyena			for the hyena = hyena; little property	tree rules

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 317

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 317