Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 72

Afterwards the sister of Mpunzikazi said to her father: “I also wish to be the wife of a chief.”

Who acts: sister · What happens: say, wish, be · To what, where: father, 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 (sister), 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	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Mpunzikazi	case
5	Mpunzikazi	Mpunzikazi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 wish	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 wish	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wish	nsubj
13	also	also	ADV	_	14 wish	advmod
14	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	18 wife	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 wife	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wife	det
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wish	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 chief	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chief	det
21	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wife	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sister of Mpunzikazi		Mpunzikazi's father	afterwards property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wish in a quote	present	the sister of Mpunzikazi = sister				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		the wife		of a chief	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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 72

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 72