Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 109

They said: “We will eat her another time,” and so they took her home with them.

Who acts: cannibals, We · What happens: say, eat, take · To what, where: wife, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cannibals, We), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 home	nmod:poss
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	cannibals = cannibal				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	future	We	wife	time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	take	past	cannibals = cannibal	wife's home		with ashes = ash	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

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 Kenkebe., sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 109