Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 38

Masilo said to her: “Just hear me, and do as I command you, then you will see.”

Who acts: Masilo, house · What happens: say, hear, do, command, see · To what, where: house, Masilo · 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, house), 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	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
7	Just	just	ADV	_	8 hear	advmod
8	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hear	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 do	cc
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	parataxis
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 command	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 command	nsubj
15	command	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 do	advcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 command	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 see	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hear	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Masilo		house		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear in a quote	infinitive		Masilo			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	present					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	command in a quote	present	Masilo	house			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	see in a quote	future	house			then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 38