Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 17

The girl said: “Just listen, and I will tell you the custom of that village.”

Who acts: girl · What happens: say, listen, tell · To what, where: custom, you · 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 (girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct
6	Just	just	ADV	_	7 listen	advmod
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 listen	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 custom	det
15	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 village	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 village	det
18	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 custom	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen in a quote	infinitive				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the girl = girl	the custom of that village	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient custom=Topic

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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 17