Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 106

When he was a young man, Sikulume said to his friends: “I am going to marry the daughter of Mangangezulu.”

Who acts: man, young man · What happens: be, say, go, marry · To what, where: young man, friends, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, young man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 man	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
8	Sikulume	Sikulume	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 friends	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friends	nmod:poss
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 daughter	det
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Mangangezulu	case
23	Mangangezulu	Mangangezulu	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 daughter	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	a young man			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a young man		Sikulume's friends	Sikulume nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	a young man = man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	a young man = man not said here	the daughter of Mangangezulu			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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 Sikulume., sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 106