Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 23

“Go home; I will stay behind to watch and find the thing which eats our work.”

Who acts: you, Masilo, thing, our · What happens: go, stay, watch, find, eat, work · To what, where: thing, work

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Masilo, thing, our), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 stay	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Go	conj
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 watch	mark
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stay	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 find	cc
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 watch	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 eats	nsubj
16	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	acl:relcl
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 work	nmod:poss
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eats	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay in a quote	future	Masilo		behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch in a quote	to-infinitive	Masilo not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	find in a quote	infinitive	Masilo not said here	the thing		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	eat in a quote	present	the thing	our work		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
6	work in a quote		our			nom work «act 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 Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 23