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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 67

Then he wished to kill the calf, but he said to himself: “If I kill this calf I shall not be able to get milk from the eland.”

Who acts: Tumtumse · What happens: wish, kill, say, not be, get · To what, where: calf, Tumtumse, milk, eland · 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 (Tumtumse), 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

advmodnsubjmarkxcompdetobjpunctccnsubjadvclcaseoblpunctpunctmarknsubjadvcldetobjnsubjauxadvmodcopccompmarkxcompobjcasedetoblpunctpunctrootThenADVhePRONwishedVERBtoPARTkillVERBtheDETcalfNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONsaidVERBtoADPhimselfPRON:PUNCT“PUNCTIfSCONJIPRONkillVERBthisDETcalfNOUNIPRONshallAUXnotPARTbeAUXableADJtoPARTgetVERBmilkNOUNfromADPtheDETelandNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 wishedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wishednsubj
3wishedwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoPART_5 killmark
5killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf3 wishedxcomp
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 calfdet
7calfcalfNOUNNumber=Sing5 killobj
8,,PUNCT_11 saidpunct
9butbutCCONJ_11 saidcc
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 saidnsubj
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wishedadvcl
12totoADP_13 himselfcase
13himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes11 saidobl
14::PUNCT_25 ablepunct
15“"PUNCT_25 ablepunct
16IfifSCONJ_18 killmark
17IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 killnsubj
18killkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 ableadvcl
19thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 calfdet
20calfcalfNOUNNumber=Sing18 killobj
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 ablensubj
22shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin25 ableaux
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 ableadvmod
24bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf25 ablecop
25ableableADJDegree=Pos11 saidccomp
26totoPART_27 getmark
27getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf25 ablexcomp
28milkmilkNOUNNumber=Sing27 getobj
29fromfromADP_31 elandcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 elanddet
31elandelandNOUNNumber=Sing27 getobl
32..PUNCT_3 wishedpunct
33”"PUNCT_3 wishedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wishpastTumtumsethenvn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2kill not said to happento-infinitiveTumtumse not said herethe calfvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme
3say speech: assertpastTumtumseTumtumsevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quotepresentTumtumsethis calfvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme
5not is in a quoteshallTumtumseable propertytree rules
6get in a quoteto-infinitiveTumtumse not said heremilkthe elandvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent milk=Theme from eland=Source

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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