Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 22

Then in the evening the owner of the place arrived, and the girl gave him bread and fermented milk.

Who acts: owner, girl · What happens: arrive, give, ferment · To what, where: bread, him, milk

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 (owner, girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 arrived	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 evening	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 owner	det
6	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owner	nmod
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrived	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fermented	cc
19	fermented	ferment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gave	conj
20	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fermented	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	arrive	past	the owner of the place			then; evening	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	the girl	bread	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme
3	ferment	past	the girl not said here	milk			tree rules

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 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 22