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title: The children returned to their grandfather, and the people came ther… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The children returned to their grandfather, and the people came there and made them rulers of the country, because it was through them the cannibal was brought to death. Who acts: children, people, country. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 81

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The children returned to their grandfather, and the people came there and made them rulers of the country, because it was through them the cannibal was brought to death.

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**Who acts:** children, people, country · **What happens:** return, come, make, be, bring · **To what, where:** children, people, death

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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 (children, people, country), 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:pg71335:15:81
# text = The children returned to their grandfather, and the people came there and made them rulers of the country, because it was through them the cannibal was brought to death.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | to children's grandfather *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to grandfather=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past | the people |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | the people *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | rulers of the country *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary ruler=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | country |  |  |  |  | through people | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | past · passive |  | people |  | death |  | the cannibal *nsubj:pass* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to death=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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