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title: The people of that village brought millet and put before them. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of that village brought millet and put before them. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 269

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The people of that village brought millet and put before them.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** bring, put · **To what, where:** millet

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg71335:10:269
# text = The people of that village brought millet and put before them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the people of that village | millet |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent millet=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | participle | the people of that village *not said here* |  |  |  | before people |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before they=Destination |

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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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