Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 18

After the little girl had been taken away by the birds, her mother had a son, one of whose sides was flesh like other people’s, and the other side was iron.

Who acts: birds, mother, other side · What happens: take away, have, be · To what, where: little girl, son, one flesh, iron

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, mother, other side), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	7 taken	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 had	advcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 birds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 son	det
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flesh	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 flesh	nummod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sides	case
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	22 sides	nmod:poss
22	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flesh	cop
24	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	appos
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 people	case
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flesh	nmod
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 people	case
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 iron	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 iron	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 side	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 side	amod
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 iron	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 iron	cop
35	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take away	past · perfect · passive	the birds	the little girl	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	have	past	girl's mother	a son		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is a	past		one flesh	like other people	tree rules
4	is a	past	the other side	iron		tree rules

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, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 18