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title: When they reached home, his wife said: “Take those eyes, you silly o… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached home, his wife said: “Take those eyes, you silly one, to their owner, and bring back your own.” Who acts: eyes, wife, you. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Another Story of Kenkebe., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Another Story of Kenkebe., sentence 8

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When they reached home, his wife said: “Take those eyes, you silly one, to their owner, and bring back your own.”

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**Who acts:** eyes, wife, you · **What happens:** reach, say, take, one, bring back · **To what, where:** eyes, own · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Another 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 (eyes, wife, you), 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:pg71335:20:8
# text = When they reached home, his wife said: “Take those eyes, you silly one, to their owner, and bring back your own.”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kenkebe's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that eyes |  |  |  | eyes's owner *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **one** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your own |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent own=Theme |

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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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