The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 12

Other stories, like “The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé,” come from the Kaffirs in Africa, whose dear papas are not so poor as those in Australia, but have plenty of cattle and milk, and good mealies to eat, and live in houses like very big bee-hives, and wear clothes of a sort, though not very like our own.

Who acts: Other stories, dear papas · What happens: come, not be, have, eat, live, wear · To what, where: Kaffirs, plenty, houses, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other stories, dear papas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stories	amod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Milk	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 Milk	case
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Milk	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Milk	det
7	Sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Milk	amod
8	Milk	Milk	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stories	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Koumongoé	case
10	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Milk	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stories	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 stories	punct
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Kaffirs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Kaffirs	det
16	Kaffirs	Kaffir	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 come	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Africa	case
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Kaffirs	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 poor	punct
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	22 papas	nmod:poss
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 papas	amod
22	papas	papa	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 poor	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 poor	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 poor	advmod
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 poor	advmod
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Africa	amod
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 those	case
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 poor	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 Australia	case
30	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 those	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	parataxis
34	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 cattle	case
36	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 plenty	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 milk	cc
38	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cattle	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 mealies	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 mealies	cc
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 mealies	amod
42	mealies	mealie	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 eat	mark
44	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 mealies	acl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 live	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 live	cc
47	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	conj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 houses	case
49	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 live	obl
50	like	like	ADP	_	55 hives	case
51	very	very	ADV	_	52 big	advmod
52	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 hives	amod
53	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 hives	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 bee	punct
55	hives	hive	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 houses	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 wear	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 wear	cc
58	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 come	parataxis
59	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	58 wear	obj
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 sort	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 sort	det
62	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 clothes	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 own	punct
64	though	though	SCONJ	_	69 own	mark
65	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 own	advmod
66	very	very	ADV	_	69 own	advmod
67	like	like	ADP	_	69 own	case
68	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 own	nmod:poss
69	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 wear	parataxis
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Other stories like the Sacred Milk of Koumongoé		the Kaffirs in Africa		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kaffir=Initial_Location
2	not is	present	dear papas			as those; poor property	tree rules
3	have	present		plenty of cattle and milk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	live	present	Other stories like the Sacred Milk of Koumongoé not said here		houses like big bee hives		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
6	wear	infinitive		clothes of a sort			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source

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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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