Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 57

They sing “Cumbelele, cumbelele, pangalala,” and at the last la they draw their hands back sharply, each one pinching with his thumb nail the hand above.

Who acts: children, one · What happens: sing, draw, pinch · To what, where: Cumbelele cumbelele, hands, last la

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sing	nsubj
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 cumbelele	punct
4	Cumbelele	Cumbelele	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cumbelele	compound
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cumbelele	punct
6	cumbelele	cumbelele	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pangalala	punct
8	pangalala	pangalala	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cumbelele	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cumbelele	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cumbelele	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 draw	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 la	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 la	det
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 la	amod
15	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 draw	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 draw	nsubj
17	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sing	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 draw	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	21 sharply	advmod
21	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	17 draw	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 draw	obl
25	pinching	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 one	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 nail	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nail	nmod:poss
28	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nail	compound
29	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pinching	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hand	det
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 above	obl:unmarked
32	above	above	ADV	_	29 nail	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	children = child	Cumbelele cumbelele and pangalala			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cumbelele=Theme
2	draw	present	children = child	children's hands	the last la	each one obl; sharply property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	pinch	gerund	each one not said here			with hand's thumb nail	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with nail=Instrument

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 Sikulume., sentence 57

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 57