Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 78
Gingci removed the eating mat from the jar, and said to the bird: “My father’s bird, make milk for me.”
Who acts: Gingci, bird · What happens: remove, say, make · To what, where: eating mat, jar, 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 (Gingci, bird), 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 | Gingci | Gingci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 removed | nsubj |
| 2 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mat | det |
| 4 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mat | compound |
| 5 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 removed | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 jar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jar | det |
| 8 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 removed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 removed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 bird | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 bird | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bird | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 make | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 removed | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | Gingci | the eating mat | the jar | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mat=Theme from jar=Source | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gingci not said here | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | My father's bird | milk | for Gingci | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent milk=Material for i=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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