Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 25

Then he pretended to cut a piece of meat out of his thigh, and said: “So are they doing at your father’s village.

Who acts: famine, people · What happens: pretend, cut, say, do · To what, where: piece, thigh, village · 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 (famine, people), 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 pretended	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cut	mark
5	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretended	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 meat	case
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 thigh	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 thigh	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 thigh	nmod:poss
13	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 doing	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 doing	punct
19	So	so	ADV	_	22 doing	advmod
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 doing	aux
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 doing	nsubj
22	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	27 village	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 village	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 father	case
27	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 doing	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pretend	past	famine			then	tree rules
2	cut	to-infinitive	famine not said here	a piece of meat	famine's thigh		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product
3	say speech: assert	past	famine not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	present · progressive	people		your father's village		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 25