Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 70
Kenkebe said: “Get out of my sight and never come near me again, you ugly, useless animal.”
Who acts: Kenkebe, my · What happens: say, get out, not come, sight · To what, where: sight · 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 (Kenkebe, my), 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 | Kenkebe | Kenkebe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Get | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Get | punct |
| 5 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Get | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Get | conj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ugly | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ugly | nsubj |
| 18 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Get | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 animal | punct |
| 20 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animal | amod |
| 21 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ugly | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Get | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Kenkebe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get out in a quote | infinitive | my sight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | infinitive | again | near Kenkebe | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=Location | ||||
| 4 | sight in a quote | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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