Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 9

Then she gave the girl a stick, and told her to go to her uncle’s house, saying that when she got there she must strike the ground with the stick, and all the clothes and other things that belonged to her would then rise up out of the earth.

Who acts: woman, other things, clothes · What happens: give, tell, go, say, get, strike · To what, where: stick, girl, woman, house, ground, earth · 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 (woman, other things, clothes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 house	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 uncle	nmod:poss
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 uncle	case
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 strike	mark
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 got	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 strike	advcl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 got	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 strike	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 strike	aux
28	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saying	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 strike	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 stick	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stick	det
33	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 strike	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 rise	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 rise	cc
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 clothes	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 clothes	det
38	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	48 rise	nsubj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 things	cc
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 things	amod
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 clothes	conj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 belonged	nsubj
43	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 things	acl:relcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 belonged	obl
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 rise	aux
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 rise	advmod
48	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	conj
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 rise	compound:prt
50	out	out	ADP	_	53 earth	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 earth	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 earth	det
53	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 rise	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	woman	a stick	the girl		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient stick=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	woman not said here		woman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here			woman's uncle's house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	gerund	woman not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	past	woman			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	strike	must	woman	the ground				with the stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Patient with stick=Instrument
7	belong	past	other things		woman				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
8	rise up	would	all clothes and other things			the earth	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out earth=Location

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 9

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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 9