Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 147
She said to her husband: “Get a fat ox to go with us.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: say, get, go · To what, where: husband, fat ox · 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 (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 husband | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Get | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Get | punct |
| 8 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ox | det |
| 10 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ox | amod |
| 11 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Get | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ox | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Get | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | mother | mother's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | a fat ox | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | a fat ox not said here | with us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary |
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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