Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 27
He told them also to be ready at a certain time to conduct his daughter to the chief.
Who acts: man · What happens: tell, be, conduct · To what, where: friends, daughter, chief · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 ready | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ready | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ready | cop |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ready | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 conduct | mark |
| 13 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conduct | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 chief | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chief | det |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conduct | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | friends = friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | time | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conduct | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's daughter | the chief | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to chief=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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