Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 67

He said afterwards: “I want the cattle of my father to be here,” and at once they were all there.

Who acts: boy, father · What happens: say, want, be · To what, where: cattle · 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, father), 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	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
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	2 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cattle	det
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cattle	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	15 here	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 here	cop
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 want	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 there	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 there	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 there	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 there	cop
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 there	advmod
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 here	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	boy		afterwards property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	boy	the cattle of my father		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cattle=Theme
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive			here property	tree rules
4	is	past	father		all, there property	tree rules

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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 67