Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 42

So he called to his mother, and said: “Mother, mother, wake, my father is going away with the pot in his hand.”

Who acts: father · What happens: call, say, go away · To what, where: mother, hand · 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 (father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Mother	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Mother	punct
12	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mother	punct
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Mother	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wake	punct
16	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Mother	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 going	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 pot	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pot	det
25	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 going	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 going	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	father		father's mother			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	father not said here	Mother and mother and wake				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
3	go away in a quote	present · progressive	my father			father's hand	with the pot; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with pot=Beneficiary

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 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 42