Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 30

Then their father said to them: “When we lie down to sleep, you must be watchful.

Who acts: father, we, children · What happens: say, lie down, sleep, be · To what, where: children · 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 (father, we, children), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
9	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 lie	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lie	nsubj
11	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lie	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sleep	mark
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lie	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watchful	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 watchful	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 watchful	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 watchful	cop
19	watchful	watchful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lie	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	children's father	children = child	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie down in a quote	present	we			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	must	children = child			watchful property	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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 30