Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 12

The wise woman said: “It was because you did not obey my command about keeping this matter to yourself, but your wife will yet have a son without arms and without legs.”

Who acts: wise woman, you, place, obey command, wife · What happens: say, not obey, be, keep, have · To what, where: obey command, matter, yourself, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise woman, you, place, obey command), 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 woman	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 command	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 command	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 command	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 command	cop
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 obey	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 obey	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 obey	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 obey	advmod
13	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 command	compound
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 command	nmod:poss
15	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
16	about	about	SCONJ	_	17 keeping	mark
17	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 command	acl
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 matter	det
19	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keeping	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 yourself	case
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 keeping	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 have	advmod
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 son	det
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	without	without	ADP	_	32 arms	case
32	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 legs	cc
34	without	without	ADP	_	35 legs	case
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 arms	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wise woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not obey in a quote	past · do-support	you					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	place	my obey command			my nmod:poss	tree rules
4	keep in a quote	gerund	my obey command not said here	this matter	yourself			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme
5	have in a quote	future	your wife	a son		yet	without arms and legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 12