Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 45

One day she told her she heard their father was sick, and proposed that they should go to see him.

Who acts: Mbulukazi, father, children · What happens: tell, hear, be, propose, go, see · To what, where: girl, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Mbulukazi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mbulukazi, father, children), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sick	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	cop
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heard	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proposed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 proposed	cc
14	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proposed	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mbulukazi		girl	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear	past	Mbulukazi					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	children's father				sick property	tree rules
4	propose	past	Mbulukazi not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	should	children = child					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 45

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 45