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title: “Demazana, Demazana, Child of my mother, Open this cave to me. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Demazana, Demazana, Child of my mother, Open this cave to me. Who acts: Demazana. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 21

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“Demazana, Demazana, Child of my mother, Open this cave to me.

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**Who acts:** Demazana · **What happens:** open · **To what, where:** cave, friend

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demazana), 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:pg71335:11:21
# text = “Demazana, Demazana, Child of my mother, Open this cave to me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Demazana	Demazana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Demazana	Demazana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive | Demazana and Child of my mother | this cave | friend |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cave=Patient to i=Recipient |

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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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