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title: The woman gave the doves some corn to eat, after which she took the… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman gave the doves some corn to eat, after which she took the jars home to her hut, and set them carefully down in a corner. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Mbulukazi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 13

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The woman gave the doves some corn to eat, after which she took the jars home to her hut, and set them carefully down in a corner.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** give, eat, take, set · **To what, where:** doves, jars, hut, corner

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Mbulukazi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg71335:17:13
# text = The woman gave the doves some corn to eat, after which she took the jars home to her hut, and set them carefully down in a corner.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the woman | the doves |  |  |  | some corn *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient corn=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | woman | the jars |  | woman's hut |  | which *obl*; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme to hut=Destination |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | doves *= dove* |  | a corner |  | down *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in corner=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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