Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 58

Then the children of Masilo said: “There is a bird in our father’s house which makes milk.”

Who acts: children, bird, house · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: house, 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 (children, bird, house), 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	6 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Masilo	case
5	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 house	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 father	case
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 makes	nsubj
19	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 house	acl:relcl
20	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 makes	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the children of Masilo			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	a bird		our father's house; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
3	make in a quote	present	our father's house	milk			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset milk=Product

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 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 58