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title: He said to the other: “Mbambozozele, my dog, if I kill this calf, wi… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to the other: “Mbambozozele, my dog, if I kill this calf, will you imitate it and suck the eland for me?” Who acts: Kenkebe, Mbambozozele. 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 71

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He said to the other: “Mbambozozele, my dog, if I kill this calf, will you imitate it and suck the eland for me?”

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**Who acts:** Kenkebe, Mbambozozele · **What happens:** say, kill, imitate, suck · **To what, where:** other, calf, eland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Mbambozozele), 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:pg71335:19:71
# text = He said to the other: “Mbambozozele, my dog, if I kill this calf, will you imitate it and suck the eland for me?”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Mbambozozele	Mbambozozele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	eland	eland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Kenkebe |  | the other |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Kenkebe | this calf |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme |
| 3 | **imitate** *in a quote* | future | Mbambozozele | calf |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **suck** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mbambozozele *not said here* | the eland |  |  |  | for Kenkebe | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eland=Source |

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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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