Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 85

He said: “That cannot be so; go and get some berries, and let me see my child eat them.”

Who acts: father, That, child · What happens: say, not be, go, get, let, see · To what, where: berries, father, child · 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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
5	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 go	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 so	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 so	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 berries	det
15	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 child	nmod:poss
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is in a quote	infinitive			so property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	can	That			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get in a quote	infinitive	That not said here	some berries		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer berry=Stimulus
5	let in a quote	infinitive	That not said here	father		tree rules
6	see in a quote	infinitive	father not said here	my child		tree rules
7	eat in a quote	infinitive	my child not said here	berries = berry		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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/pg71335/6/85/

🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 85