Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 69

Hlakanyana said to his mother, that she must put the meat in the pot to cook, but that it must not be eaten before the next morning.

Who acts: Hlakanyana, mother · What happens: say, put, cook, not eat · To what, where: mother, meat, pot · 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, mother), 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	Hlakanyana	Hlakanyana	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mother	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 put	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meat	det
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pot	det
15	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cook	mark
17	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 put	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eaten	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 eaten	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 eaten	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eaten	nsubj:pass
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eaten	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 eaten	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 eaten	aux:pass
25	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
26	before	before	ADP	_	29 morning	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 morning	det
28	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 morning	amod
29	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eaten	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana		Hlakanyana's mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
2	put	must	mother	the meat		the pot		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme in pot=Destination
3	cook	to-infinitive	mother not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not eat	must · passive		meat			morning	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 69