Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 23

He said to him: “That is not my tail you have hold of; it is a root of the tree.

Who acts: Lion, That, Jackal, tail · What happens: say, not be, have, be · To what, where: Jackal, tail, hold, root · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Lion and Little Jackal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, That, Jackal, tail), 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	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 tail	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 tail	punct
7	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 tail	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tail	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tail	advmod
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tail	acl:relcl
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 hold	fixed
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 root	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 root	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 root	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 root	det
20	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 root	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lion		Jackal		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not is a in a quote	present	That	my tail		my nmod:poss	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	Jackal	hold			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient
4	is a in a quote	present	tail	a root		of the tree	tree rules

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 Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 23