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title: “Ntengu, ntengu, Chips, return to your places, Chips, return to your… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ntengu, ntengu, Chips, return to your places, Chips, return to your places, Chips, be fast.” Who acts: Ntengu ntengu. 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 41

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“Ntengu, ntengu, Chips, return to your places, Chips, return to your places, Chips, be fast.”

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**Who acts:** Ntengu ntengu · **What happens:** return, be

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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 (Ntengu ntengu), 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:pg71335:12:41
# text = “Ntengu, ntengu, Chips, return to your places, Chips, return to your places, Chips, be fast.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ntengu	Ntengu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ntengu	ntengu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ntengu ntengu and Chips |  |  |  |  | to your places and Chips *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 2 | **return** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to your places and Chips *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ntengu ntengu and Chips *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |

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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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