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title: So he rose up early in the morning, and went on till he arrived at h… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: So he rose up early in the morning, and went on till he arrived at his father-in-law’s village, where he was received with every mark of kindness. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 5

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So he rose up early in the morning, and went on till he arrived at his father-in-law’s village, where he was received with every mark of kindness.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** rise up, go on, arrive, receive, mark · **To what, where:** village, man, kindness

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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 (man), 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:pg71335:19:5
# text = So he rose up early in the morning, and went on till he arrived at his father-in-law’s village, where he was received with every mark of kindness.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | man |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go on** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | man |  |  | man's village  father |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** | past · passive |  | man |  |  |  | with every mark of kindness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **mark** |  |  | kindness |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition 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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