Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 57

The others continued to press them, and said: “We won’t tell anybody.”

Who acts: others, We · What happens: continue, press, say, not tell · To what, where: others, anybody · 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 (others, We), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 continued	nsubj
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 press	mark
5	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 continued	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 press	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
12	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
13	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 tell	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	continue	past	the others			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	press	to-infinitive	the others not said here	others = other		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the others not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not tell speech: assert in a quote	future	We		anybody	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anybody=Recipient

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 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 57