Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 41
Mpunzikazi answered: “You ugly thing! who are you that you should advise me?”
Who acts: Mpunzikazi, You, ugly thing · What happens: answer, thing, be · 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 (Mpunzikazi, You, ugly thing), 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 | Mpunzikazi | Mpunzikazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 advise | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 advise | cop |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 advise | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 advise | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 advise | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 advise | aux |
| 15 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thing | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 advise | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | Mpunzikazi | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | thing in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should · present | ugly thing | you nsubj; me obj; advise property | tree rules |
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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