Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 77

She commanded the nurse never to say to any one that she came out of the water, and told her that when people asked where the child got food she must say she gave it berries to eat.

Who acts: name, people, child · What happens: not command, say, come out, tell, ask, get · To what, where: nurse, one, water, name, food · 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 (name, people, child), 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 commanded	nsubj
2	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 commanded	obj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 commanded	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 commanded	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 came	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 water	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 commanded	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 asked	mark
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 asked	advmod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 asked	nsubj
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	advcl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 got	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 child	det
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	nsubj
29	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 asked	ccomp
30	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	obj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 say	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 say	aux
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 got	xcomp
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gave	nsubj
35	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 say	ccomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gave	obj
37	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 gave	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 eat	mark
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 berries	acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not command	past	name	the nurse				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent nurse=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	name not said here		any one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
3	come out	past	name	any one		the water		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result
4	tell speech: assert	past	name not said here		name			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	ask speech: ask	past	people					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get	past	the child	food				tree rules
7	say speech: assert	must	name					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	give	past	name	food			berries obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient berry=Theme
9	eat	to-infinitive	name not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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 77