Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 31

Then the bird said: “Please don’t kill me, and I will make some milk for you to eat.”

Who acts: bird, you · What happens: say, not kill, make, eat · To what, where: bird, milk · 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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct
7	Please	please	INTJ	_	10 kill	discourse
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 kill	advmod
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 kill	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kill	parataxis
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 milk	det
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 eat	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bird		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not kill in a quote	infinitive · do-support		the bird = bird		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	make in a quote	future	the bird = bird	some milk		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 31