Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 76

The girl said: “As for me, I also say let us drink of father’s milk to-day.”

Who acts: girl, us · What happens: say, let, drink · To what, where: us · 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 (girl, us), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
6	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 me	case
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 As	fixed
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	also	also	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	ccomp
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 milk	case
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 milk	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drink	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drink	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girl			me ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the girl = girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
4	drink in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		day	of father's milk	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of milk=Source

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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 76