Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 101

“Go to my father and my mother and tell them I am taken by the river.”

Who acts: people, river · What happens: go, tell, take · To what, where: people, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, river), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mother	cc
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 taken	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 taken	aux:pass
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tell	ccomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	people not said here			to my father and my mother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	people not said here		people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	present · passive	the river	I			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination

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 Tangalimlibo., sentence 101

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 101