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title: To obtain peace for his people, he voluntarily surrendered to the En… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: To obtain peace for his people, he voluntarily surrendered to the English troops, and was sent as a prisoner of state to Robben Island. Who acts: Nkele. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 121

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To obtain peace for his people, he voluntarily surrendered to the English troops, and was sent as a prisoner of state to Robben Island.

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**Who acts:** Nkele · **What happens:** obtain, surrender, send · **To what, where:** peace, English troops, Robben Island

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nkele), 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:pg71335:26:121
# text = To obtain peace for his people, he voluntarily surrendered to the English troops, and was sent as a prisoner of state to Robben Island.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	voluntarily	voluntarily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	surrendered	surrender	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Robben	Robben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | Nkele *not said here* | peace |  |  |  | for Nkele's people | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent peace=Theme for people=Asset |
| 2 | **surrender** | past | Nkele |  | the English troops |  |  | voluntarily *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to troops=Recipient |
| 3 | **send** | past · passive |  |  | Robben Island |  |  | as a prisoner of state | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to island=Destination |

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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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