Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 81

Hlakanyana said: “As that is so, give me the bones, for you who are the wife of the chief will not eat from the same pot with a dog.”

Who acts: Hlakanyana, that, you, chief · What happens: say, be, give, not eat · To what, where: bones, Hlakanyana, same 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, that, you, chief), 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	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
5	As	as	SCONJ	_	8 so	mark
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 so	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 so	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 give	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 so	punct
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bones	det
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wife	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	20 wife	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 wife	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 wife	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wife	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wife	det
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	parataxis
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 eat	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chief	det
23	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 eat	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 eat	advmod
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wife	advcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 pot	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pot	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pot	amod
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 dog	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dog	det
33	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pot	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 wife	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	that				so property	tree rules
3	give in a quote	infinitive		the bones	Hlakanyana			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bone=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	you				for the wife; who nsubj	tree rules
5	not eat in a quote	future	the chief			the same pot with a dog		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from pot=Source

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 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 81