Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 16

She told her, and her sister said: “I am going to that village too.”

Who acts: mother, sister · What happens: tell, say, go · To what, where: sister, village · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, sister), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod:poss
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl
17	too	too	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	mother	sister		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	mother's sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	mother's sister = sister		that village	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_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, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 16

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Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 16