Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 29

Then he caught it, and said: “Ah! is it you who eat the work of our hands?”

Who acts: Bird, ground, hands · What happens: catch, say, be, eat, work · To what, where: ground, you, work · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bird, ground, hands), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 caught	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 you	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 you	punct
10	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	14 you	discourse
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Ah	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 you	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 you	nsubj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 said	ccomp
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 eat	nsubj
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 you	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 work	det
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hands	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hands	nmod:poss
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 work	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Bird	ground	then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Bird not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	ground	you			tree rules
4	eat in a quote	present		the work of our hands		who nsubj	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
5	work in a quote		our hands				nom work «act intransitive»: of=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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 29