Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 93

In the morning, when that woman came out of her house, she took ashes and cast upon the bird, for she said: “This bird knows where our children are.”

Who acts: woman, bird, children · What happens: come out, take, cast, say, know, be · To what, where: house, ashes · 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 (woman, bird, children), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 took	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cast	cc
18	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 bird	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cast	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 knows	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 knows	punct
28	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 bird	det
29	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knows	nsubj
30	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 are	advmod
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 children	nmod:poss
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 are	nsubj
34	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 knows	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 knows	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	that woman	woman's house			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result
2	take	past	woman	ashes	morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
3	cast	present	woman not said here			upon the bird	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon bird=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know in a quote	present	this bird				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	does in a quote	present	our children				vn exist-47.1 «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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 93