Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 70

When evening set in, the children determined to return to their home, but there came a storm of rain with heavy thunder, and they were very much afraid.

Who acts: storm, children, rain · What happens: set in, determine, return, come, be, storm · To what, where: children

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 (storm, children, rain), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 set	advmod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl:unmarked
3	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 children	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obl
8	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 children	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 return	mark
10	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 determined	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 home	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 home	nmod:poss
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 return	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 came	expl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 storm	det
19	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 rain	case
21	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 storm	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 thunder	case
23	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thunder	amod
24	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rain	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 afraid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 afraid	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 afraid	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 afraid	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 afraid	advmod
31	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set in	participle		the children		evening		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	determine	participle		the children not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	return	to-infinitive					to children's home result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
4	come	past	a storm of rain with heavy thunder		there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	children = child				afraid property	tree rules
6	storm		rain with heavy thunder					nom storm «phenomenon 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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 70