Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 34

Then Masilo said: “Make the milk now,” and, behold, it immediately made thick milk, which Masilo began to eat.

Who acts: Masilo, ground, thick milk · What happens: say, make, begin, eat · To what, where: milk, thick milk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, ground, thick 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Make	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Make	punct
6	Make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 milk	det
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Make	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Make	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Make	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Make	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
14	behold	behold	INTJ	_	18 made	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 behold	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 milk	amod
20	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 began	nsubj
23	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 milk	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Masilo		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	infinitive		the milk	now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset milk=Product
3	make	past	ground	thick milk		immediately property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material milk=Product
4	begin	past	thick milk			Masilo nsubj	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	eat	to-infinitive	thick milk not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 34