Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 90

So those boys went to the river, and Sikulume said to them: “I will go into the water, and take an assagai with me.

Who acts: boys, Sikulume · What happens: go, say, take · To what, where: river, boys, water, assagai · 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 (boys, Sikulume), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	Sikulume	Sikulume	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 assagai	det
26	assagai	assagai	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 take	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	that boys			the river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Sikulume		boys = boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	future	Sikulume			the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
4	take in a quote	infinitive	Sikulume not said here	a assagai			with Sikulume	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assagai=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 90

The tree

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 90