Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 75

Then the children entered the house and made a large fire, and began to roast some wild roots which they dug out of the ground.

Who acts: children, wild roots · What happens: enter, make, begin, roast, dig out · To what, where: house, large fire, wild roots, ground

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, wild roots), 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	4 entered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fire	amod
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 roast	mark
16	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 roots	det
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 roots	amod
19	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 roast	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 dug	nsubj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dug	nsubj
22	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 roots	acl:relcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 ground	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dug	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the children	the house	then		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
2	make	past	the children not said here	a large fire			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
3	begin	past	the children not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	roast	to-infinitive	the children not said here	some wild roots			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient
5	dig out	past	some wild roots	the ground		children = child nsubj	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=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 75

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 75