Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 74

She said to the bird again: “You don’t know how to sing your song nicely; let me go, and I will sing it for you.”

Who acts: mother, bird, your · What happens: say, not know, sing, let, go · To what, where: bird, song, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, bird, your), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 sing	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sing	mark
15	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 know	xcomp
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 song	nmod:poss
17	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sing	obj
18	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	15 sing	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 know	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sing	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sing	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sing	aux
27	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 know	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sing	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 sing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mother		the bird	again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the bird = bird					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express in a quote	to-infinitive	the bird = bird not said here	your song			nicely property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	let in a quote	infinitive		mother				tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sing speech: express in a quote	future	mother	song			for the bird = bird	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Beneficiary
7	sing in a quote		your					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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 the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 74