Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 16
“My dear wife, you should have told me of this before.”
What happens: tell · To what, where: dear wife, 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: 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 | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | aux |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 told | obl |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 told | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | should · perfect · passive | My dear wife | father | of this; you nsubj:pass; before property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=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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