Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 406

He said to the jackal: “You must climb up on the house and cry out with a loud voice, ‘We are going to be fat to-day because Hlakanyana is dead’”

Who acts: Hlakanyana, jackal, We · What happens: say, climb up, cry out, go, be · To what, where: jackal, house · 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, jackal, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 jackal	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jackal	det
5	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 climb	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 climb	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 climb	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 climb	aux
10	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 climb	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climb	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cry	cc
16	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 climb	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 cry	compound:prt
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 voice	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 voice	det
20	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 voice	amod
21	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cry	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
24	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	29 fat	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 fat	cop
29	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 going	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 to	punct
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fat	obl
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	36 dead	mark
34	Hlakanyana	Hlakanyana	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 dead	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 dead	cop
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 going	advcl
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana	the jackal				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jackal=Recipient clause=Topic
2	climb up in a quote	must	the jackal = jackal		the house			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on house=Trajectory
3	cry out speech: express in a quote	infinitive	the jackal = jackal not said here				with a loud voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme
4	go in a quote	present · progressive	We					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here			day	fat property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	Hlakanyana				dead 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 406

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 406