Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 38
Pick, break into small pieces; Sods, return to your places.”
Who acts: you · What happens: pick, break, return · To what, where: Sods, small pieces
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), 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 break | punct |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pick | conj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 pieces | case |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pieces | amod |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 break | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pick | punct |
| 8 | Sods | sod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pick | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pick | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 places | nmod:poss |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 return | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pick | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | imperative | you not said here | Sods | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sod=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | infinitive | you not said here | into small pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result | ||||
| 3 | return | infinitive | you not said here | to your places result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «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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