Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 4

One day they said to their grandfather: “We have been long with you, we should like very much to go and see our parents.”

Who acts: children, We, grandfather · What happens: say, be, like, go, see · To what, where: grandfather, parents · 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 (children, We, grandfather), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 grandfather	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandfather	nmod:poss
7	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
10	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 long	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 long	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 long	cop
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 like	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 you	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	19 like	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	conj
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 parents	nmod:poss
27	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	children = child		children's grandfather	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grandfather=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present · perfect	We				long property	tree rules
3	like in a quote	should	children's grandfather = grandfather				we nsubj	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	children's grandfather = grandfather not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see in a quote	infinitive	children's grandfather = grandfather not said here	our parents				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 4