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

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

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:4:34
# text = Then Masilo said: “Make the milk now,” and, behold, it immediately made thick milk, which Masilo began to eat.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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