Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 42

The woman sent water to her father-in-law, but he threw it on the ground, saying:

Who acts: woman, father · What happens: send, throw, say · To what, where: water, father, ground · 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 (woman, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	nsubj
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 threw	advcl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	send	past	the woman	water	woman's father in law		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to father=Destination
2	throw	past	father	water		the ground	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination
3	say speech: assert	gerund	father not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/6/42/

🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 42