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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 91

If the water moves much, you will know I am in the stomach of the inabulele; if the water is red, you will know I have killed it.”

Who acts: water, you, I · What happens: move, know, be, kill · To what, where: stomach, I · 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 (water, 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

markdetnsubjadvcladvmodpunctnsubjauxnsubjcopcasedetccompcasedetnmodpunctmarkdetnsubjcopadvclpunctnsubjauxconjnsubj:passauxccompobjpunctpunctrootIfSCONJtheDETwaterNOUNmovesVERBmuchADV,PUNCTyouPRONwillAUXknowVERBIPRONamAUXinADPtheDETstomachNOUNofADPtheDETinabuleleNOUN;PUNCTifSCONJtheDETwaterNOUNisAUXredADJ,PUNCTyouPRONwillAUXknowVERBIPRONhaveAUXkilledVERBitPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IfifSCONJ_4 movesmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 waterdet
3waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing4 movesnsubj
4movesmoveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 knowadvcl
5muchmuchADV_4 movesadvmod
6,,PUNCT_4 movespunct
7youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs9 knownsubj
8willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin9 knowaux
9knowknowVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 stomachnsubj
11ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 stomachcop
12ininADP_14 stomachcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 stomachdet
14stomachstomachNOUNNumber=Sing9 knowccomp
15ofofADP_17 inabulelecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 inabuleledet
17inabuleleinabuleleNOUNNumber=Sing14 stomachnmod
18;;PUNCT_27 knowpunct
19ififSCONJ_23 redmark
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 waterdet
21waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing23 rednsubj
22isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 redcop
23redredADJDegree=Pos27 knowadvcl
24,,PUNCT_23 redpunct
25youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs27 knownsubj
26willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin27 knowaux
27knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf9 knowconj
28IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 killednsubj:pass
29havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 killedaux
30killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 knowccomp
31ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 killedobj
32..PUNCT_9 knowpunct
33”"PUNCT_9 knowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1move a condition, not said to happenpresentthe watervn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2knowfutureyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3ispresentIthe stomachof the inabuleletree rules
4is a condition, not said to happenpresentthe waterred propertytree rules
5knowfutureyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6killpresent · perfect · passiveIwater objvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer it=Result

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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