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title: When it was nearly dark, Nomagoda came home again, bringing some ani… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: When it was nearly dark, Nomagoda came home again, bringing some animals which she had killed. Who acts: cannibal, Nomagoda. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 27

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When it was nearly dark, Nomagoda came home again, bringing some animals which she had killed.

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**Who acts:** cannibal, Nomagoda · **What happens:** be, come, bring, kill · **To what, where:** animals

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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 (cannibal, Nomagoda), 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:pg71335:12:27
# text = When it was nearly dark, Nomagoda came home again, bringing some animals which she had killed.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Nomagoda	Nomagoda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | cannibal |  |  |  |  | dark, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | Nomagoda |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | Nomagoda *not said here* |  | some animals |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination |
| 4 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | some animals |  |  |  | Nomagoda *nsubj:pass* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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