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title: You will hear a dancing of people, a roaring of wild beasts, and a b… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: You will hear a dancing of people, a roaring of wild beasts, and a barking of dogs in your mother’s stomach. Who acts: You, wild beasts. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 31

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You will hear a dancing of people, a roaring of wild beasts, and a barking of dogs in your mother’s stomach.

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**Who acts:** You, wild beasts · **What happens:** hear, dance, roar · **To what, where:** dancing, stomach, people

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wild beasts), 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:pg71335:15:31
# text = You will hear a dancing of people, a roaring of wild beasts, and a barking of dogs in your mother’s stomach.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	barking	barking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | future | You | a dancing of people and a roaring of wild beasts |  | your mother's stomach |  | a barking of dogs *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dance** |  |  | people |  |  |  |  | nom dancing «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **roar** |  | wild beasts |  |  |  |  |  | nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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