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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 8

He said: “You must leave at such a time that you may arrive there in the evening, so that your mother may not see you, only your father.”

Who acts: grandfather, You, time, mother · What happens: say, leave, arrive, not see · To what, where: you · 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 (grandfather, You, time, 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

nsubjpunctpunctnsubjauxccompcasedet:predetdetoblnsubjnsubjauxacl:relcladvmodcasedetoblpunctmarkfixednmod:possnsubjauxadvmodconjobjpunctadvmodnmod:possparataxispunctpunctrootHePRONsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTYouPRONmustAUXleaveVERBatADPsuchDETaDETtimeNOUNthatPRONyouPRONmayAUXarriveVERBthereADVinADPtheDETeveningNOUN,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJyourPRONmotherNOUNmayAUXnotPARTseeVERByouPRON,PUNCTonlyADVyourPRONfatherNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3::PUNCT_7 leavepunct
4“"PUNCT_7 leavepunct
5YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs7 leavensubj
6mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin7 leaveaux
7leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf2 saidccomp
8atatADP_11 timecase
9suchsuchDETPronType=Ind11 timedet:predet
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 timedet
11timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing7 leaveobl
12thatthatPRONPronType=Rel15 arrivensubj
13youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs15 arrivensubj
14maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin15 arriveaux
15arrivearriveVERBVerbForm=Inf11 timeacl:relcl
16therethereADVPronType=Dem15 arriveadvmod
17ininADP_19 eveningcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 eveningdet
19eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing15 arriveobl
20,,PUNCT_27 seepunct
21sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ27 seemark
22thatthatSCONJ_21 sofixed
23youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 mothernmod:poss
24mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing27 seensubj
25maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin27 seeaux
26notnotPARTPolarity=Neg27 seeadvmod
27seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 leaveconj
28youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs27 seeobj
29,,PUNCT_32 fatherpunct
30onlyonlyADV_32 fatheradvmod
31youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 fathernmod:poss
32fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing27 seeparataxis
33..PUNCT_7 leavepunct
34”"PUNCT_7 leavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastgrandfathervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2leave in a quotemustYoutimevn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3arrive in a quotemaysuch timethereeveningyou nsubjvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4not see in a quotemayyour motheryouyour father parataxisvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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