Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 16

He said: “I will choose six of you, and set my son who is dumb, over you, that will make seven in all.

Who acts: chief, son, that · What happens: say, choose, set, be, make · To what, where: six, son, seven, all · 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 (chief, son, that), 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	_	7 choose	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 choose	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 choose	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 choose	aux
7	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 choose	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 six	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 choose	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 dumb	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 dumb	cop
18	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 son	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 you	punct
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 set	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 make	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 choose	conj
26	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 make	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 seven	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	chief				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	choose in a quote	future	chief	six of you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Theme
3	set in a quote	infinitive	chief not said here	my son		you conj	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient son=Result
4	is in a quote	present	my son			dumb property	tree rules
5	make in a quote	future	that	seven	all		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seven=Product

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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 16