Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 8

Then the old man went to the chief and told him what he had seen.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: go, tell, see · To what, where: chief, man · 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 (old man, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 chief	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chief	det
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 seen	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old man		the chief	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old man not said here	man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see	past · perfect	man				what obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 8