Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 6

When it was ready the mother of Long Snake said: “Carry this bread into the house of Long Snake.”

Who acts: millet, mother · What happens: be, say, carry · To what, where: bread, house · 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 (millet, 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	4 ready	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Snake	case
8	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Snake	amod
9	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Carry	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Carry	punct
13	Carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 bread	det
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Carry	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Carry	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Long	case
20	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	nmod
21	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Long	flat
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Carry	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	millet			ready property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother of Long Snake				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	carry in a quote	infinitive		this bread	the house of Long		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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 Long Snake., sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 6