Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 44

Thus, a woman who sang the song of Tangalimlibo for me used the word angoca instead of amanzi for water, because this last contained the syllable nzi, which she would not on any account pronounce.

Who acts: woman, Tangalimlibo · What happens: sing, use, contain, not pronounce · To what, where: song, word angoca, syllable nzi, account

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Tangalimlibo), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	13 used	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sang	nsubj
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Tangalimlibo	case
10	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 song	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sang	obl
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 angoca	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 angoca	compound
16	angoca	angoca	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obj
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	19 amanzi	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 amanzi	case
19	amanzi	amanzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 amanzi	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 last	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 last	mark
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 last	nsubj
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 used	obl
26	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 last	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nzi	det
28	syllable	syllable	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nzi	compound
29	nzi	nzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 contained	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pronounce	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 pronounce	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 pronounce	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 pronounce	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 pronounce	advmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 account	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 account	det
37	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pronounce	obl
38	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 nzi	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	a woman	the song of Tangalimlibo		for me	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Theme for i=Beneficiary
2	use	past	a woman	the word angoca		instead amanzi for water; last this obl; thus property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angoca=Patient
3	contain	past		the syllable nzi			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nzi=Theme
4	not pronounce	would	woman	the syllable nzi	any account		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	sing		Tangalimlibo				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 44

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 44