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title: He took the skin and put it upon Mbambozozele, so that the eland tho… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: He took the skin and put it upon Mbambozozele, so that the eland thought it was her calf that sucked before Kenkebe milked her. Who acts: Mbambozozele, eland, calf, Kenkebe. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 74

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He took the skin and put it upon Mbambozozele, so that the eland thought it was her calf that sucked before Kenkebe milked her.

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**Who acts:** Mbambozozele, eland, calf, Kenkebe · **What happens:** take, put, think, be, suck, milk · **To what, where:** skin, calf, wife · **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 (Mbambozozele, eland, calf, 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:pg71335:19:74
# text = He took the skin and put it upon Mbambozozele, so that the eland thought it was her calf that sucked before Kenkebe milked her.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mbambozozele	Mbambozozele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eland	eland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sucked	suck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	Kenkebe	Kenkebe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	milked	milk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Mbambozozele | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Mbambozozele *not said here* | calf |  |  |  | upon Mbambozozele | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon mbambozozele=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the eland |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | eland | wife's calf |  |  |  | wife *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **suck** | past | wife's calf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **milk** | past | Kenkebe | wife |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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