---
title: The boy saw another herd of dun-coloured cattle. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy saw another herd of dun-coloured cattle. Who acts: boy. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/21/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kaffir folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/) / [Story of the Wonderful Horns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/21/) / 11

# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Wonderful Horns., sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The boy saw another herd of dun-coloured cattle.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** herd

<!-- .vabout -->
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:21:11
# text = The boy saw another herd of dun-coloured cattle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	dun	dun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the boy | another herd of coloured cattle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herd=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/21/10/)
- next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/21/12/)
- ↑ back to [Story of the Wonderful Horns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/21/)