Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 12

The one we should term mother can only be distinguished from the others, when speaking of her, by describing her as uma wam kanye—i.e., my real mother; or uma ondizalayo—i.e., the mother who bore me.

Who acts: mother · What happens: distinguish, speak, describe, bear · To what, where: we, wife, me, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 distinguished	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 distinguished	aux
5	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	compound
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 distinguished	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 distinguished	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 distinguished	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 distinguished	aux:pass
10	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 one	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 others	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 distinguished	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speaking	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 speaking	advmod
16	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 speaking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 describing	punct
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 describing	mark
21	describing	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 speaking	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 describing	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 kanye	case
24	uma	uma	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kanye	compound
25	wam	wam	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kanye	compound
26	kanye	kanye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 describing	obl
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 i.e.	punct
28	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	26 kanye	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mother	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mother	nmod:poss
31	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mother	amod
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kanye	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 ondizalayo	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 ondizalayo	cc
35	uma	uma	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ondizalayo	compound
36	ondizalayo	ondizalayo	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 describing	obl
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 i.e.	punct
38	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	36 ondizalayo	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 mother	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mother	det
41	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ondizalayo	appos
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 bore	nsubj
43	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 mother	acl:relcl
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 bore	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	distinguish	can · passive		we	from the others; term mother nsubj:pass	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme from other=Co-Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund			of wife	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	describe	gerund		wife	as uma wam kanye and my real mother; uma ondizalayo obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme as kanye=Attribute
4	bear	past	the mother	me		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 Demane and Demazana., sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 12