Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 64

She said to the bird: “Give me my axe; I do not wish for your flesh now.”

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, give, not wish · To what, where: bird, axe, mother · 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), 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 bird	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Give	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Give	punct
8	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Give	iobj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 axe	nmod:poss
11	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Give	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wish	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wish	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 wish	advmod
16	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 flesh	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 flesh	nmod:poss
19	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wish	obl
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 wish	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mother		the bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here	my axe	mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient axe=Theme
3	not wish in a quote	present · do-support	mother			now	for your flesh	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for flesh=Theme

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 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 64