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title: When it was ready the mother of Long Snake said: “Carry this bread i… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: When it was ready the mother of Long Snake said: “Carry this bread into the house of Long Snake.” Who acts: millet, mother. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 6

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When it was ready the mother of Long Snake said: “Carry this bread into the house of Long Snake.”

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**Who acts:** millet, mother · **What happens:** be, say, carry · **To what, where:** bread, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (millet, mother), 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:pg71335:18:6
# text = When it was ready the mother of Long Snake said: “Carry this bread into the house of Long Snake.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	_
21	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	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 | millet |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother of Long Snake |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this bread |  | the house of Long |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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