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title: After that he whistled a particular tune, and there fell a storm of… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: After that he whistled a particular tune, and there fell a storm of hail which killed the bushbuck. Who acts: pot, hail. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Hare., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 82

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After that he whistled a particular tune, and there fell a storm of hail which killed the bushbuck.

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**Who acts:** pot, hail · **What happens:** whistle, fall, kill, storm · **To what, where:** particular tune, storm, bushbuck

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, hail), 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:pg71335:24:82
# text = After that he whistled a particular tune, and there fell a storm of hail which killed the bushbuck.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bushbuck	bushbuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whistle** | past | pot | a particular tune |  |  | after that |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic |
| 2 | **fall** | past | pot *not said here* | a storm of hail |  | there |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient storm=Result |
| 3 | **kill** | past | hail | the bushbuck |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bushbuck=Theme |
| 4 | **storm** |  | hail |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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