Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 32
Masilo answered: “You must bring back the work of my hands first.”
Who acts: Masilo, You, hands · What happens: answer, bring back, work · To what, where: 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 (Masilo, You, 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 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 work | det |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 work | nmod |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 bring | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Masilo | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring back in a quote | must | You | the work of my hands | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 3 | work in a quote | my 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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