Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 13

Speaking of my mother, ma is the word used: of your mother, unyoko; of his or her mother, unina.

Who acts: Speaking · What happens: speak, be, use · To what, where: word · 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 (Speaking), 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	Speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 word	csubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 mother	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ma	punct
6	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 word	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 word	acl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 mother	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mother	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unyoko	punct
16	unyoko	unyoko	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mother	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 mother	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 mother	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 mother	cc
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unina	punct
24	unina	unina	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund			of my mother and ma	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Speaking	the word	Bawo's mother and unina appos	tree rules
3	use	participle		the word not said here	of your mother and unyoko	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Demane and Demazana., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 13