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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 91

The other end he gave to the men of that village, telling them to hold it fast and to pull hard when they felt it being drawn from them.

Who acts: other end, wives · What happens: give, tell, hold, pull, feel, draw · To what, where: men, wives, village · 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 (other end, wives), 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

detamodnsubjnsubjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctadvcliobjmarkxcompobjadvmodccmarkconjadvmodadvmodnsubjadvclnsubj:passaux:passccompcaseoblpunctrootTheDETotherADJendNOUNhePRONgaveVERBtoADPtheDETmenNOUNofADPthatDETvillageNOUN,PUNCTtellingVERBthemPRONtoPARTholdVERBitPRONfastADVandCCONJtoPARTpullVERBhardADVwhenADVtheyPRONfeltVERBitPRONbeingAUXdrawnVERBfromADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 enddet
2otherotherADJDegree=Pos3 endamod
3endendNOUNNumber=Sing5 gavensubj
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 gavensubj
5gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6totoADP_8 mencase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 mendet
8menmanNOUNNumber=Plur5 gaveobl
9ofofADP_11 villagecase
10thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem11 villagedet
11villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing8 mennmod
12,,PUNCT_13 tellingpunct
13tellingtellVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 gaveadvcl
14themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs13 tellingiobj
15totoPART_16 holdmark
16holdholdVERBVerbForm=Inf13 tellingxcomp
17ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 holdobj
18fastfastADVDegree=Pos16 holdadvmod
19andandCCONJ_21 pullcc
20totoPART_21 pullmark
21pullpullVERBVerbForm=Inf16 holdconj
22hardhardADVDegree=Pos21 pulladvmod
23whenwhenADVPronType=Int25 feltadvmod
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 feltnsubj
25feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 pulladvcl
26ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 drawnnsubj:pass
27beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part28 drawnaux:pass
28drawndrawVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 feltccomp
29fromfromADP_30 themcase
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 drawnobl
31..PUNCT_5 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepastthe other endthe men of that villageendvn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
2tell speech: assertgerundthe other end not said herewives = wifevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3hold not said to happento-infinitivethe other end not said herevillagefast propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4pullto-infinitivethe other end not said herehard propertyvn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5feelpastwives = wifevn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6drawgerund · passivevillagefrom wives = wifevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from they=Initial_Location

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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