Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 57
After that he used to rise even in the night and tell the bird to make milk for him.
Who acts: man · What happens: use, rise, tell, make · To what, where: bird, milk · 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 (man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 used | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rise | mark |
| 6 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 night | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rise | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rise | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | man | after that | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rise | to-infinitive | man not said here | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | man not said here | the bird | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | milk | for man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent milk=Material for he=Beneficiary |
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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