Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 65

He said: “I want the fire of my father to be here,” and there was a fire.

Who acts: boy, fire · What happens: say, want, be, fire · To what, where: fire, father · 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, fire), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	_	2 said	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fire	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	14 here	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 here	cop
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 want	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 was	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	boy	the fire of my father			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive	boy not said here			here property	tree rules
4	be	past	a fire		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fire in a quote			my father			nom fire «event transitive»: of=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/8/65/

🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 65