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title: The next morning, just at the first beginning of dawn, Kenkebe got u… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning, just at the first beginning of dawn, Kenkebe got up and went away with a pot in his hand. Who acts: Kenkebe. 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 40

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The next morning, just at the first beginning of dawn, Kenkebe got up and went away with a pot in his hand.

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**Who acts:** Kenkebe · **What happens:** get up, go away, begin · **To what, where:** hand, dawn

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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 (Kenkebe), 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:pg71335:19:40
# text = The next morning, just at the first beginning of dawn, Kenkebe got up and went away with a pot in his hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	Kenkebe	Kenkebe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | Kenkebe |  |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go away** | past | Kenkebe *not said here* |  |  | Kenkebe's hand |  | with a pot; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with pot=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | dawn |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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