Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 8

The voice said again: “Bear me, mother, before the meat of my father is all finished.”

Who acts: voice · What happens: say, bear, finish · To what, where: voice, 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 (voice), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 voice	det
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Bear	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Bear	punct
7	Bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 Bear	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mother	punct
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Bear	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 finished	punct
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 finished	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 meat	det
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finished	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meat	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 finished	aux:pass
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 finished	advmod
20	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Bear	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Bear	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the voice		again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bear in a quote	infinitive		the voice = voice		mother conj	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 8