Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 21

But when they arrived there the mbulu said: “You must tell the people here that you are my servant, and that I am the daughter of a chief.”

Who acts: girls, mbulu, You · What happens: arrive, say, tell, be · To what, where: people, servant, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, mbulu, You), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 arrived	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 arrived	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mbulu	det
7	mbulu	mbulu	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tell	iobj
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 tell	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 servant	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 servant	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 servant	cop
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 servant	nmod:poss
21	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 daughter	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 daughter	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 daughter	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 daughter	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 daughter	det
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 chief	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 chief	det
31	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 daughter	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	girls = girl			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mbulu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	You		the people	here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	you	my servant			my nmod:poss	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	the mbulu = mbulu	the daughter			of a chief	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, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 21