Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 50

One morning Masilo and his wife went to work in their garden, and about the middle of the same day the children of that town met together to play.

Who acts: Masilo, children · What happens: go, work, meet, play

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, children), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
3	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wife	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Masilo	conj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 garden	nmod:poss
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 met	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 met	cc
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 met	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 day	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 middle	nmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 met	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 town	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 town	det
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 children	nmod
27	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
28	together	together	ADV	_	27 met	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 play	mark
30	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 met	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Masilo and Masilo's wife	morning		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work	to-infinitive	Masilo and Masilo's wife not said here		in people's garden	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme
3	meet	past	the children of that town		about the middle of the same day; together property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	to-infinitive	the children of that town not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «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 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 50