Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 92

It was midnight when it arrived there, and it sat down at the gate of Mosemanyanamatong’s mother’s house.

Who acts: darkness · What happens: be, arrive, sit down · To what, where: midnight, gate

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 (darkness), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 midnight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 midnight	cop
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	parataxis
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 arrived	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 arrived	nsubj
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 arrived	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arrived	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 house	case
17	Mosemanyanamatong	Mosemanyanamatong	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Mosemanyanamatong	case
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 house	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 mother	case
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gate	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	darkness	midnight		tree rules
2	arrive	past	darkness		there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	past	darkness		the gate of Mosemanyanamatong's mother's house	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location

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 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 92