Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 2
When taken from the cow, the milk is put into a skin bag, where it ferments and acquires a sharp acid taste.
Who acts: milk · What happens: take, put, ferment, acquire · To what, where: milk, skin bag, sharp acid taste
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: who acts (milk), 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 | 2 taken | advmod |
| 2 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 cow | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taken | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 milk | det |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 taken | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bag | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bag | det |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bag | compound |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ferments | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 ferments | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ferments | nsubj |
| 18 | ferments | ferment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bag | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 acquires | cc |
| 20 | acquires | acquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 taste | det |
| 22 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 taste | amod |
| 23 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taste | compound |
| 24 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 acquires | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | participle | from the cow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from cow=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | put | present · passive | the milk | a skin bag and ferments | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 3 | ferment | milk | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | acquire | present | a sharp acid taste | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset taste=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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