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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 389

Hlakanyana looked at the monkey with the branch on him, and said: “It is eaten by the monkey, it is eaten by the monkey; look at the branch on him.”

Who acts: Hlakanyana, monkey · What happens: look, say, eat · To what, where: branch · 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, monkey), 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

nsubjcasedetoblcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccparataxispunctpunctnsubj:passaux:passccompcasedetoblpunctnsubj:passaux:passconjcasedetoblpunctconjcasedetoblcaseoblpunctpunctrootHlakanyanaPROPNlookedVERBatADPtheDETmonkeyNOUNwithADPtheDETbranchNOUNonADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTItPRONisAUXeatenVERBbyADPtheDETmonkeyNOUN,PUNCTitPRONisAUXeatenVERBbyADPtheDETmonkeyNOUN;PUNCTlookVERBatADPtheDETbranchNOUNonADPhimPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HlakanyanaHlakanyanaPROPNNumber=Sing2 lookednsubj
2lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3atatADP_5 monkeycase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 monkeydet
5monkeymonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing2 lookedobl
6withwithADP_8 branchcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 branchdet
8branchbranchNOUNNumber=Sing2 lookedobl
9ononADP_10 himcase
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 branchnmod
11,,PUNCT_13 saidpunct
12andandCCONJ_13 saidcc
13saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 lookedparataxis
14::PUNCT_18 eatenpunct
15“"PUNCT_18 eatenpunct
16ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 eatennsubj:pass
17isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 eatenaux:pass
18eateneatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 saidccomp
19bybyADP_21 monkeycase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 monkeydet
21monkeymonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing18 eatenobl
22,,PUNCT_25 eatenpunct
23ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 eatennsubj:pass
24isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 eatenaux:pass
25eateneatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 eatenconj
26bybyADP_28 monkeycase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 monkeydet
28monkeymonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing25 eatenobl
29;;PUNCT_30 lookpunct
30looklookVERBVerbForm=Inf13 saidconj
31atatADP_33 branchcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 branchdet
33branchbranchNOUNNumber=Sing30 lookobl
34ononADP_35 himcase
35himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 lookobl
36..PUNCT_2 lookedpunct
37”"PUNCT_2 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpastHlakanyanaat the monkey; with the branch on monkeyvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at monkey=Theme
2say speech: assertpastvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3eat in a quotepresent · passivethe monkeybranchvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4eat in a quotepresent · passivethe monkeybranchvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5look in a quoteinfinitiveon Hlakanyana; at the branchvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at branch=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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