Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 56

He put all the flesh and everything else that was of that ox into the river, saying:

Who acts: father, that · What happens: put, be, say · To what, where: flesh, river · 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 (father, that), 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flesh	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flesh	det
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 everything	cc
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 flesh	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 everything	advmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ox	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ox	cop
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ox	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 ox	det
13	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flesh	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 put	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	father	all flesh everything and that ox	the river		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent flesh=Goal
2	is	past	that			of that ox	tree rules
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.

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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 56