Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 22

She said to her husband: “Sohinazinci, what have you to tell me about this nice smell that is in my house?

Who acts: mother, husband, nice smell · What happens: say, have, tell, be · To what, where: husband, Sohinazinci, mother, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, husband, nice smell), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Sohinazinci	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Sohinazinci	punct
8	Sohinazinci	Sohinazinci	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 have	obj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Sohinazinci	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 smell	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 smell	det
18	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 smell	amod
19	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 house	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 house	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 house	nmod:poss
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smell	acl:relcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	mother		mother's husband		Sohinazinci parataxis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	mother's husband = husband	Sohinazinci				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive			mother		about this nice smell	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about smell=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	this nice smell			my house	my nmod:poss	tree rules

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 the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 22