Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 152

He said: “The enemies of my father’s house did that; you, my wife, are stronger than they.”

Who acts: man, enemies, you · What happens: say, do, be · To what, where: that · 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 (man, enemies, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 enemies	det
6	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 did	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enemies	nmod
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 did	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 stronger	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 stronger	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 you	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stronger	cop
21	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 said	parataxis
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 they	case
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stronger	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	past	the enemies of my father's house	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	present	you		than enemies = enemy; strong property	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 the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 152

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 152