Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 61

They ordered it as their father used to order it, and it made milk, which their companions drank, for they were very hungry.

Who acts: others, father, cause, companions · What happens: order, use, make, drink, be · To what, where: cause, milk

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 (others, father, cause, companions), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 used	mark
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 used	nsubj
7	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ordered	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 order	mark
9	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 used	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 order	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ordered	conj
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drank	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 drank	obj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 companions	nmod:poss
19	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 drank	nsubj
20	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 milk	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hungry	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 hungry	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hungry	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hungry	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 hungry	advmod
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 made	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	others = other	cause		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	use	past	others's father			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	order	to-infinitive	others's father not said here	cause		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	make	past	cause	milk		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material milk=Product
5	drink	past	others's companions	milk		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
6	is	past	others = other		hungry property	tree rules

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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 61