Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 52

He said: “The coney is dead, and the muishond is dead, and the duiker is dead, and the bluebuck is dead, and the porcupine is dead, and you will kill me also.”

Who acts: hare, coney, muishond, duiker, bluebuck, porcupine · What happens: say, be, kill · To what, where: hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, coney, muishond, duiker), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coney	det
6	coney	coney	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dead	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dead	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 muishond	det
12	muishond	muishond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dead	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dead	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dead	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dead	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 duiker	det
18	duiker	duiker	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dead	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dead	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dead	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dead	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bluebuck	det
24	bluebuck	bluebuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dead	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dead	cop
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dead	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dead	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dead	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 porcupine	det
30	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dead	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dead	cop
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dead	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 kill	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 kill	cc
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 kill	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 kill	aux
37	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 kill	obj
39	also	also	ADV	_	37 kill	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 kill	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	hare			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the coney		dead property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the muishond		dead property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	the duiker		dead property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	the bluebuck		dead property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	the porcupine		dead property	tree rules
7	kill in a quote	future	you	hare		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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, Story of the Hare., sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 52