Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 4

Then in the evening the mother of Long Snake gave that girl some millet, and told her to grind it.

Who acts: mother · What happens: give, tell, grind · To what, where: millet, girl, mother · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 gave	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 gave	obl
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	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 girl	mark
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	iobj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 millet	det
14	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 grind	mark
20	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grind	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	the mother of Long	some millet	girl	then; evening	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient millet=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the mother of Long not said here		mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	grind not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mother of Long not said here	millet			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 4