Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 55

One of them heard her saying, “Go and tell my father and my mother that it took me.”

Who acts: One, it · What happens: hear, say, go, tell, take · To what, where: companion, father, One · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One, it), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heard	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obj
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Go	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Go	punct
9	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 Go	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mother	cc
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 took	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 took	iobj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Go	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past	One of others	companion		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	gerund	One of others not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			my father and my mother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	past	it		One of others = One	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 55