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title: After satisfying his hunger, he struck the left horn, and the rest o… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: After satisfying his hunger, he struck the left horn, and the rest of the food went in again. Who acts: boy, rest. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Wonderful Horns., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Wonderful Horns., sentence 10

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After satisfying his hunger, he struck the left horn, and the rest of the food went in again.

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**Who acts:** boy, rest · **What happens:** satisfy, strike, go in, hunger · **To what, where:** hunger, left horn

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Wonderful Horns.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, rest), 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:pg71335:21:10
# text = After satisfying his hunger, he struck the left horn, and the rest of the food went in again.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **satisfy** | gerund | boy *not said here* | boy's hunger |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer |
| 2 | **strike** | past | boy | the left horn |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 3 | **go in** | past | the rest of the food |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hunger** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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