Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 43

But he rose again and returned to his father, still saying: “Father, give me some meat.”

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	chief			again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	return	past	chief not said here				to chief's father result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result
3	say speech: assert	gerund	chief not said here			still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	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 43

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 43