Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 28

Pick, come off; Pick handle, break; Sods, go back to your places!”

Who acts: you, Sods · What happens: pick, come off, go back · To what, where: handle

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 (you, Sods), 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	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 come	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 Pick	punct
6	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	parataxis
7	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Pick	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 break	punct
9	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handle	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
11	Sods	sod	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Sods	punct
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 places	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 places	nmod:poss
17	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Pick	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come off	infinitive	you not said here			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	pick	infinitive		handle and break		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Patient
4	go back	infinitive	Sods		to your places result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result

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, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 28