Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 333
Hlakanyana replied: “How can I run away with a thing that is not mine?”
Who acts: Hlakanyana, that · What happens: reply, run away, not be · To what, where: Hlakanyana · 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, that), 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 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 5 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 run | advmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 run | nsubj |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 thing | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 mine | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mine | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 mine | advmod |
| 16 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 thing | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Hlakanyana | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run away in a quote | can | Hlakanyana | with a thing; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with thing=Material | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | that | Hlakanyana | 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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