Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 5

She said: “Your wife will have a son who will have no arms and no legs, as this calf has no horns and no tail.”

Who acts: tail, wife, son, calf · What happens: say, have · To what, where: son, arms, horns · 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 (tail, wife, son, calf), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
5	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 have	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 son	acl:relcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 arms	det
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 legs	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 legs	det
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 arms	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 has	mark
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 calf	det
22	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 horns	det
25	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 has	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tail	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 tail	det
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 horns	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	tail		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	future	Your wife	a son	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	have in a quote	future	a son	no arms and no legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
4	have in a quote	present	this calf	no horns and no tail	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 5