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title: The cannibal then took her round to the different villages and made… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The cannibal then took her round to the different villages and made her sing for him. Who acts: cannibal, number. 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 clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 12

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The cannibal then took her round to the different villages and made her sing for him.

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**Who acts:** cannibal, number · **What happens:** take, make, sing · **To what, where:** number, different villages

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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 (cannibal, number), 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:pg71335:14:12
# text = The cannibal then took her round to the different villages and made her sing for him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the cannibal | number |  | the different villages | then | round *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to village=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past | the cannibal *not said here* | number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for cannibal | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient |

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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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