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title: Other stories, like “The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé,” come from the Ka… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Other stories, like “The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé,” come from the Kaffirs in Africa, whose dear papas are not so poor as those in Australia, but have plenty of cattle and milk, and good mealies to eat, and live in houses like very big bee-hives, and wear clothes of a sort, though not very like our o
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 12

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Other stories, like “The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé,” come from the Kaffirs in Africa, whose dear papas are not so poor as those in Australia, but have plenty of cattle and milk, and good mealies to eat, and live in houses like very big bee-hives, and wear clothes of a sort, though not very like our own.

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**Who acts:** Other stories, dear papas · **What happens:** come, not be, have, eat, live, wear · **To what, where:** Kaffirs, plenty, houses, clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other stories, dear papas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:1:12
# text = Other stories, like “The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé,” come from the Kaffirs in Africa, whose dear papas are not so poor as those in Australia, but have plenty of cattle and milk, and good mealies to eat, and live in houses like very big bee-hives, and wear clothes of a sort, though not very like our own.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Milk	Milk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Kaffirs	Kaffir	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	papas	papa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
34	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	mealies	mealie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
51	very	very	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
53	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	wear	wear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
59	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	58	obj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
64	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
65	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	69	advmod	_	_
66	very	very	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
67	like	like	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Other stories like the Sacred Milk of Koumongoé |  |  | the Kaffirs in Africa |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from kaffir=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | dear papas |  |  |  |  | as those; poor *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | plenty of cattle and milk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **live** | present | Other stories like the Sacred Milk of Koumongoé *not said here* |  |  | houses like big bee hives |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 6 | **wear** | infinitive |  | clothes of a sort |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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