Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 46

Her husband caught hold of her arm, and said: “Ho! if you put me to death who will be your husband?”

Who acts: husband, you, death · What happens: catch, say, put, be, hold · To what, where: hold, Ho, husband, arm · 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 (husband, you, death), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 arm	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arm	nmod:poss
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Ho	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Ho	punct
13	Ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Ho	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 put	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 put	nsubj
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 put	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 husband	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 husband	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 husband	cop
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 death	acl:relcl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 husband	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Hinazinci's husband	hold of Hinazinci's arm			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Hinazinci's husband not said here	Ho			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ho=Topic
3	put a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you		Hinazinci's husband = husband	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal
4	is a in a quote	future	death	your husband		your nmod:poss	tree rules
5	hold			Hinazinci's arm			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/15/46/

🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 46