Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 109

He said: “Will you, my cock, take this message to the father and mother of Tangalimlibo?”

Who acts: dog, you · What happens: say, take · To what, where: message, father · 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 (dog, 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	_	11 take	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
5	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cock	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cock	nmod:poss
9	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 you	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cock	punct
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 message	det
13	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 father	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 father	det
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mother	cc
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 father	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Tangalimlibo	case
20	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 mother	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	dog						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	future	you	this message	the father and mother of Tangalimlibo				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to father=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 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 109