Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 41

Then he returned to his father, and said again: “Father, give me some meat.”

Who acts: chief, Father · What happens: return, say, give · To what, where: meat, chief · 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 (chief, Father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 returned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
13	Father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Father	punct
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 meat	det
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	chief			then	to chief's father result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	chief not said here			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive	Father	some meat	chief			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meat=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 41

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Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 41