Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 360

When he gave it the last time the leopardess said: “Why does my child not drink to-day?”

Who acts: Hlakanyana, leopardess · What happens: give, say, not drink · To what, where: door · 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, leopardess), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leopardess	det
9	leopardess	leopardess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 drink	advmod
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 drink	aux
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 does	obj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 drink	advmod
18	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 day	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drink	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	Hlakanyana	door	time	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	the leopardess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not drink in a quote	present · do-support			day	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 360

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 360