Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 17
(e) Itunga, a basket used to milk the cows in.
What happens: use in · To what, where: basket, e
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 e | punct |
| 2 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 e | punct |
| 4 | Itunga | Itunga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 e | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 basket | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 basket | det |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 e | conj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 basket | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 milk | mark |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 used | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cows | det |
| 12 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 milk | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 used | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 e | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use in | participle | a basket not said here | milk and the cows advcl | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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