Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 71

He said: “You shall not be my wife,” and he struck her with his tail and killed her.

Who acts: Makanda, You · What happens: say, not be, strike, kill · To what, where: wife · 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 (Makanda, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
5	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 wife	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wife	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wife	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 wife	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 struck	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 struck	nsubj
15	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 struck	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 struck	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 killed	cc
21	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 struck	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 killed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Makanda			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	shall	You	my wife	my nmod:poss	tree rules
3	strike	past	Makanda	wife	with Makanda's tail	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with tail=Instrument
4	kill	past	Makanda not said here	wife		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 71