Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 33

The boy said: “I am very hungry; will you not give me of your food?”

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: say, be, not give · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, you), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 hungry	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 hungry	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hungry	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hungry	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 hungry	advmod
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 give	advmod
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 food	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 food	nmod:poss
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the boy = boy		hungry property	tree rules
3	not give in a quote	future	you	the boy = boy	of your food	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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 Five Heads., sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 33