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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 75

Gingci said: “To-day we will drink of the milk that makes father fat and shining; we will not drink of the milk of the euphorbia to-day.”

Who acts: Gingci, we, milk · What happens: say, drink, make, shine, not drink · To what, where: father fat · 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 (Gingci, we, milk), 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

nsubjpunctpunctcasepunctoblnsubjauxccompcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcompoundobjccconjpunctnsubjauxadvmodconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasepunctoblpunctpunctrootGingciPROPNsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTToADP-PUNCTdayNOUNwePRONwillAUXdrinkVERBofADPtheDETmilkNOUNthatPRONmakesVERBfatherNOUNfatNOUNandCCONJshiningVERB;PUNCTwePRONwillAUXnotPARTdrinkVERBofADPtheDETmilkNOUNofADPtheDETeuphorbiaNOUNtoADP-PUNCTdayNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1GingciGingciPROPNNumber=Sing2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3::PUNCT_10 drinkpunct
4“"PUNCT_10 drinkpunct
5TotoADP_7 daycase
6--PUNCT_5 Topunct
7daydayNOUNNumber=Sing10 drinkobl
8wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs10 drinknsubj
9willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin10 drinkaux
10drinkdrinkVERBVerbForm=Inf2 saidccomp
11ofofADP_13 milkcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 milkdet
13milkmilkNOUNNumber=Sing10 drinkobl
14thatthatPRONPronType=Rel15 makesnsubj
15makesmakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 milkacl:relcl
16fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing17 fatcompound
17fatfatNOUNNumber=Sing15 makesobj
18andandCCONJ_19 shiningcc
19shiningshineVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 fatconj
20;;PUNCT_24 drinkpunct
21wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs24 drinknsubj
22willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin24 drinkaux
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg24 drinkadvmod
24drinkdrinkVERBVerbForm=Inf10 drinkconj
25ofofADP_27 milkcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 milkdet
27milkmilkNOUNNumber=Sing24 drinkobl
28ofofADP_30 euphorbiacase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 euphorbiadet
30euphorbiaeuphorbiaNOUNNumber=Sing27 milknmod
31totoADP_33 daycase
32--PUNCT_31 topunct
33daydayNOUNNumber=Sing24 drinkobl
34..PUNCT_10 drinkpunct
35”"PUNCT_10 drinkpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastGingcivn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2drink in a quotefuturewedayof the milkvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of milk=Source
3make in a quotepresentthe milkfather fatvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fat=Product
4shine in a quotegerundthe milk not said herevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5not drink in a quotefuturewedayof the milk of the euphorbiavn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of milk=Source

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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