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title: Kude e-Bakuba, akuyiwanga mntu. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Kude e-Bakuba, akuyiwanga mntu. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 18

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Kude e-Bakuba, akuyiwanga mntu.

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**To what, where:** Kude e-Bakuba

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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: 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:pg71335:26:18
# text = Kude e-Bakuba, akuyiwanga mntu.
1	Kude	Kude	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	e-Bakuba	e-bakuba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	akuyiwanga	akuyiwanga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mntu	mntu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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