Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 163
Crocodile then gave them (the parents) three baskets of corn, and told them to go and build on the mountains.
Who acts: Crocodile · What happens: give, tell, go, build · To what, where: three baskets, parents, children, mountains · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crocodile), 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 | Crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 parents | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parents | det |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | iobj |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 parents | punct |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 baskets | nummod |
| 10 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 corn | case |
| 12 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 baskets | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 build | cc |
| 20 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 mountains | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountains | det |
| 23 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 build | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Crocodile | three baskets of corn | the parents | then | children = child iobj | tree rules | |
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Crocodile not said here | children = child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Crocodile not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | build | infinitive | Crocodile not said here | the mountains | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on mountain=Source |
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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