Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 29

Then Kenkebe s little boy said: “Why does my father’s meat smell nice in roasting, and my mother’s meat does not smell nice?”

Who acts: little boy, meat · What happens: say, do, smell, roast, not smell · To what, where: meat · 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 (little boy, meat), 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	6 said	advmod
2	Kenkebe	Kenkebe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod:poss
3	s	's	PART	Typo=Yes	2 Kenkebe	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct
9	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 does	advmod
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 smell	advcl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meat	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	obj
15	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
16	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 smell	xcomp
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 roasting	mark
18	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 nice	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smell	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meat	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 mother	case
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smell	nsubj
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 smell	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 smell	advmod
27	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
28	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 smell	xcomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 nice	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Kenkebe's little boy		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	present		my father's meat			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Eventuality
3	smell in a quote	present				nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	roast in a quote	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	not smell in a quote	present · do-support	my mother's meat			nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 Kenkebe., sentence 29

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 29