Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 102

The boy caught one, and said to it: “My father’s bird, make milk.”

Who acts: boy, bird · What happens: catch, say, make · To what, where: one, tree, milk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 caught	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
12	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bird	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bird	punct
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	catch	past	the boy	one		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy not said here		tree	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	infinitive	My father's bird	milk		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product

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 the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 102