Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 64

Then he said: “I want my father’s house to be here,” and immediately it came.

Who acts: boy, house · What happens: say, want, be, come · To what, where: house · 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 (boy, house), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 here	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 here	cop
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 want	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
18	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 here	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	boy		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	boy	my father's house			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=Theme
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive				here property	tree rules
4	come	past	house			immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 64