Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 5

Then the people said: “Let us kill an ox, perhaps the wife of the chief will then bear a child.”

Who acts: people, us, wife · What happens: say, let, kill, bear · To what, where: us, ox, child · 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 (people, us, wife), 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	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
7	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 Let	obj
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Let	xcomp
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ox	det
11	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kill	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bear	punct
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 bear	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bear	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 chief	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chief	det
18	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wife	nmod
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bear	aux
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 bear	advmod
21	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Let	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bear	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the people		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
3	kill in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	a ox			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
4	bear in a quote	future	the wife of the chief	a child	then	perhaps property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 5