Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 39
When she was ready with the pots, Masilo took his bird out of his bag, and said: “Make milk for my children to eat.”
Who acts: house, Masilo · What happens: be, take, say, make, eat · To what, where: bird, bag, 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 (house, Masilo), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pots | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pots | det |
| 7 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ready | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pots | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bird | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 bag | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bag | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bag | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Make | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Make | punct |
| 22 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 23 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Make | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 children | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 children | nmod:poss |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Make | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Make | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | house | with the pots; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Masilo | Masilo's bird | Masilo's bag | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme out bag=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Masilo not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | milk | for my children | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent milk=Material for child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | 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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