Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 4
That milk of the tree was got by squeezing.
What happens: get, squeeze · To what, where: milk
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: 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 milk | det |
| 2 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 milk | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux:pass |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 squeezing | mark |
| 9 | squeezing | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 got | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · passive | that milk of the tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | squeeze | gerund | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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