Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 77

They were afraid, and the brave boy said to the girls and to the other boys, “Give me some of yours.”

Who acts: children, brave boy · What happens: be, say, give · To what, where: girls, some, brave boy · 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, brave boy), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 girls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 boys	cc
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 boys	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boys	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boys	amod
17	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 girls	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Give	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Give	punct
20	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Give	iobj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 Give	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 yours	case
24	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 some	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	children = child			afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the brave boy		the girls and the other boys		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive		some of yours	the brave boy = boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 77