Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 21

He had an iron rod in his hand, with which he struck the water, and at the same time he called out with a loud voice: “River, I have no sister.

Who acts: chief · What happens: have, strike, call out · To what, where: iron rod, hand, water, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rod	det
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rod	compound
5	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 struck	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 struck	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 struck	nsubj
13	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 struck	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 called	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 voice	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 voice	det
27	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 voice	amod
28	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 River	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 River	punct
31	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 voice	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
34	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 River	conj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 sister	det
36	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	chief	a iron rod	chief's hand			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Patient
2	strike	past	chief	the water			which obl	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient with which=Instrument
3	call out speech: assert	past	chief			time	with a loud voice	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have in a quote	present	chief	no sister				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 21