Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 98

One day Sikulume said to another boy: “I am going to the doctor’s; tell my sister to cook food for me, nice food that I may eat.”

Who acts: Sikulume, nice food · What happens: say, go, tell, cook, eat · To what, where: boy, doctor, nice food, sister, food · 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 (Sikulume, nice food), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl:unmarked
3	Sikulume	Sikulume	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 boy	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 doctor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 doctor	det
15	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	obl
16	’s	's	PART	_	12 going	case
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sister	nmod:poss
20	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cook	mark
22	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	xcomp
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cook	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 cook	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 food	punct
27	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 food	amod
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 eat	nsubj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 eat	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 eat	aux
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 food	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sikulume		another boy		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	Sikulume			the doctor			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to doctor=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		nice food	my sister				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
4	cook not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	nice food not said here	food				for Sikulume	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Material for i=Beneficiary
5	eat in a quote	may	nice food					I nsubj	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 98