Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 65

Masilo’s children said: “Our father will this day kill us, therefore we must go after the bird.”

Who acts: children, father, we · What happens: say, kill, go · To what, where: us · 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, father, 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	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Masilo	case
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
7	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	aux
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	obl:unmarked
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kill	conj
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 bird	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Masilo's children				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill in a quote	future	Our father	us	day		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	go in a quote	must	we		after the bird	therefore property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 65