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title: On arriving at the pool, a big ugly cannibal with only one leg came… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: On arriving at the pool, a big ugly cannibal with only one leg came up to her, caught her, and put her in his bag. Who acts: big ugly cannibal. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 10

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On arriving at the pool, a big ugly cannibal with only one leg came up to her, caught her, and put her in his bag.

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**Who acts:** big ugly cannibal · **What happens:** arrive, come up, catch, put · **To what, where:** pool, number, bag

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big ugly cannibal), 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:pg71335:14:10
# text = On arriving at the pool, a big ugly cannibal with only one leg came up to her, caught her, and put her in his bag.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | gerund | a big ugly cannibal with one leg *not said here* |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come up** | past | a big ugly cannibal with one leg |  | number |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **catch** | past | a big ugly cannibal with one leg *not said here* | number |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past | a big ugly cannibal with one leg *not said here* | number |  | cannibal's bag |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bag=Destination |

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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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