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title: Ironside took his sister home to her mother, who received her with t… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Ironside took his sister home to her mother, who received her with the greatest joy, never having forgotten her during that long time. Who acts: Ironside, mother. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 49

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Ironside took his sister home to her mother, who received her with the greatest joy, never having forgotten her during that long time.

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**Who acts:** Ironside, mother · **What happens:** take, receive, not forget · **To what, where:** sister

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ironside, mother), 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:pg71335:13:49
# text = Ironside took his sister home to her mother, who received her with the greatest joy, never having forgotten her during that long time.
1	Ironside	Ironside	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
20	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	during	during	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Ironside |  | Ironside's sister |  |  | to sister's mother; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to mother=Destination |
| 2 | **receive** | past | sister's mother | sister |  |  |  | with the greatest joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | gerund · perfect | Ironside *not said here* | sister |  |  | time |  | 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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