Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 138

Then the men said: “Wait, boys, we wish to hear what he says.”

Who acts: men, we, man · What happens: say, wait, wish, hear · To what, where: boys · 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 (men, we, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Wait	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Wait	punct
7	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boys	punct
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Wait	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wish	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 wish	nsubj
12	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Wait	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hear	mark
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wish	xcomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 says	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Wait	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the men		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait in a quote	infinitive		boys			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wish in a quote	present	we				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	hear not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	man			what obj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 138

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 138