---
title: The next morning Nomagoda (so called because she was the mother of M… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning Nomagoda (so called because she was the mother of Magoda) went out to hunt, but she did not go far, so the children could not get away. Who acts: woman, next morning, children. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.,
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/12/24/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kaffir folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/) / [The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderfu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/12/) / 24

# Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 24

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The next morning Nomagoda (so called because she was the mother of Magoda) went out to hunt, but she did not go far, so the children could not get away.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** woman, next morning, children · **What happens:** call, be, go out, hunt, not go, not get away · **To what, where:** next morning, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, next morning, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:12:24
# text = The next morning Nomagoda (so called because she was the mother of Magoda) went out to hunt, but she did not go far, so the children could not get away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	Nomagoda	Nomagoda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Magoda	Magoda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | the next morning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | woman | the mother |  |  |  | of Magoda | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | past | the next morning |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the next morning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **go** | past · do-support | woman |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **get away** | could | the children |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/12/23/)
- next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/12/25/)
- ↑ back to [The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/12/)