Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 18

The young man was cutting sticks, when he heard some one crying: “Man cutting sticks, tell my father and mother that the sinyobolokondwana bit me.”

Who acts: young man, man, one, sinyobolokondwana · What happens: cut, hear, cry, tell, bite · To what, where: sticks, one, father, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, one, sinyobolokondwana), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cutting	aux
5	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cutting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cutting	parataxis
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 one	acl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Man	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Man	punct
16	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crying	conj
17	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 Man	acl
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cutting	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mother	cc
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 father	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 bit	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sinyobolokondwana	det
27	sinyobolokondwana	sinyobolokondwana	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	nsubj
28	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 bit	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cutting	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 cutting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cut	past · progressive	the young man	sticks			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Product
2	hear	past	man	some one			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	gerund	some one not said here			Man conj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cut in a quote	gerund	Man not said here	sticks			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stick=Product
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	man not said here		my father and mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
6	bite in a quote	past	the sinyobolokondwana	me			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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.

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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 18

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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 18