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title: They afterwards threw the ashes into a river, so that nothing more c… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: They afterwards threw the ashes into a river, so that nothing more could come of that mbulu. Who acts: people, nothing. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 39

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They afterwards threw the ashes into a river, so that nothing more could come of that mbulu.

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**Who acts:** people, nothing · **What happens:** throw, come · **To what, where:** ashes, river, mbulu

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, nothing), 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:pg71335:16:39
# text = They afterwards threw the ashes into a river, so that nothing more could come of that mbulu.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
18	mbulu	mbulu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | people | the ashes |  |  |  | into a river *result*; afterwards *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer ash=Theme into river=Result |
| 2 | **come** | could | nothing | mbulu |  |  |  | of that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of that=Initial\_Location |

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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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