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title: Then he carried the bags one by one, and hid them in a cave under a… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he carried the bags one by one, and hid them in a cave under a great rock that was there. Who acts: father, great rock. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 18

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Then he carried the bags one by one, and hid them in a cave under a great rock that was there.

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**Who acts:** father, great rock · **What happens:** carry, hide, be · **To what, where:** bags, cave

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, great rock), 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:pg71335:19:18
# text = Then he carried the bags one by one, and hid them in a cave under a great rock that was there.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	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	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | father | the bags |  |  | then | one *obj* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme bag=Beneficiary one=Value |
| 2 | **hide** | past | father *not said here* | bags *= bag* |  | a cave |  | under a great rock | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in cave=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | a great rock |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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