Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 84

Kenkebe said to his son: “Go to the village of the cannibals that is on that hill over the valley, and ask for some fire; but do not take any meat with you, lest they should smell it.”

Who acts: Kenkebe, cannibals, heads · What happens: say, go, be, ask, not take, smell · To what, where: son, village, hill, meat, fire · 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, cannibals, heads), 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 son	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
8	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Go	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cannibals	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cannibals	det
14	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 village	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hill	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hill	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 hill	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 hill	det
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cannibals	acl:relcl
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 valley	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 valley	det
22	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hill	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ask	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ask	cc
25	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 Go	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 fire	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 fire	det
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ask	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 take	cc
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 take	advmod
33	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 Go	parataxis
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 meat	det
35	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 take	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 smell	punct
39	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	42 smell	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 smell	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 smell	aux
42	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 take	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 smell	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kenkebe		Kenkebe's son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive				the village of the cannibals		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	present	the cannibals			that hill	over the valley	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive					for some fire	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not take in a quote	infinitive · do-support		any meat			with Kenkebe's son = son	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
6	smell in a quote	should	heads = head	fire				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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 84