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title: Soon after this, Demane, who had taken nothing that day but a swarm… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after this, Demane, who had taken nothing that day but a swarm of bees, returned and found his sister gone. Who acts: Demane. 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 28

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Soon after this, Demane, who had taken nothing that day but a swarm of bees, returned and found his sister gone.

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**Who acts:** Demane · **What happens:** take, return, find · **To what, where:** nothing, sister gone

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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 (Demane), 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:pg71335:11:28
# text = Soon after this, Demane, who had taken nothing that day but a swarm of bees, returned and found his sister gone.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Demane	Demane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	swarm	swarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	gone	gone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect | Demane | nothing  that day  a swarm of bees |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | Demane |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Demane *not said here* | cave's sister gone |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gone=Topic |

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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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