Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 13

You must not sleep to-night; you must watch them, and to-morrow I will choose seven boys to catch them.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: not sleep, watch, choose, catch · To what, where: birds, seven boys

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 (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 to	punct
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 watch	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 watch	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 watch	aux
11	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sleep	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 watch	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 choose	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 choose	cc
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 morrow	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 choose	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 choose	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 choose	aux
20	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 watch	conj
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 boys	nummod
22	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 choose	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 catch	mark
24	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 choose	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 catch	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	must	You		night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	must	you	birds = bird			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	choose	future	I	seven boys		to morrow	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
4	catch	to-infinitive	I not said here	birds = bird			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Sikulume., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 13