Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 139

They said to him: “Begin again, we did not hear you.”

Who acts: boys, we · What happens: say, begin, not hear · To what, where: man · 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 (boys, we), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Begin	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Begin	punct
7	Begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 Begin	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Begin	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Begin	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	boys = boy		man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	begin in a quote	infinitive				again	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	not hear in a quote	past · do-support	we	man			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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 139

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 139