Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 20

When she sat down the mother of Long Snake gave her millet, telling her to grind it and make bread.

Who acts: sister, mother · What happens: sit down, give, tell, grind, make · To what, where: millet, sister, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, mother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Long	case
8	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	nmod
9	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Long	flat
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 millet	nmod:poss
12	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 telling	punct
14	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 telling	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 grind	mark
17	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 telling	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grind	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 grind	conj
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	sit down	past	sister			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the mother of Long	sister's millet		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millet=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	sister not said here		sister	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	grind not said to happen	to-infinitive	sister not said here	millet		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	make	infinitive	sister not said here	bread		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bread=Product

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 Long Snake., sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 20