Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 5

It was not nice as that of a cow, and the people that drank it were always thin.

Who acts: milk, people · What happens: not be, drink, be · 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: who acts (milk, people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 nice	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 nice	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 that	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thin	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thin	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thin	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 drank	nsubj
15	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 people	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drank	obj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thin	cop
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 thin	advmod
19	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nice	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	milk		as that of a cow; nice property	tree rules
2	drink	past	the people	milk		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	past	the people		always, thin property	tree rules

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 5