Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 6

While they were killing the ox, the woman heard a voice saying: “Bear me, mother, before the meat of my father is all finished.”

Who acts: children, woman · What happens: kill, hear, say, bear, finish · To what, where: ox, voice, woman, meat · 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 (children, woman), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 killing	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 killing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 killing	aux
4	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ox	det
6	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 killing	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 voice	det
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	advcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Bear	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Bear	punct
16	Bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saying	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Bear	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Bear	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 finished	punct
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 finished	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meat	det
23	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 finished	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 father	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meat	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 finished	aux:pass
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 finished	advmod
29	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Bear	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 Bear	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	past · progressive	children = child	the ox		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
2	hear	past	the woman	a voice		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bear in a quote	infinitive		the woman = woman	mother conj	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	finish in a quote	present · passive		the meat of my father	all property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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 6

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 6