Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 74

Their father fastened the door of the house, and told them not to enter it on any account till his return.

Who acts: father · What happens: fasten, tell, not enter, return · To what, where: door, children, account · 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 (father), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fastened	nsubj
3	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fastened	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fastened	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 enter	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 enter	mark
15	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 enter	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 account	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 account	det
19	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enter	obl
20	till	till	ADP	_	22 return	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 return	nmod:poss
22	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enter	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	fasten	past	children's father	the door of the house				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	children's father not said here		children = child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	children's father not said here	door		any account	till father's return	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
4	return		father					nom return «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, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 74