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title: The mother of the very black girl and the crows was very jealous whe… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother of the very black girl and the crows was very jealous when she saw such a fine young chief coming with so many cattle. Who acts: mother, girl, fine young chief. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Mbulukazi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 36

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The mother of the very black girl and the crows was very jealous when she saw such a fine young chief coming with so many cattle.

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**Who acts:** mother, girl, fine young chief · **What happens:** be, see, come · **To what, where:** fine young chief

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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 (mother, girl, fine young chief), 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:pg71335:17:36
# text = The mother of the very black girl and the crows was very jealous when she saw such a fine young chief coming with so many cattle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the mother of the black girl and the crows |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | girl | such fine young chief |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | such fine young chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with many cattle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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