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title: The abatwa, gorged with meat, then lay down to sleep, all except the… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The abatwa, gorged with meat, then lay down to sleep, all except the one who advised that Guluwe should not be spared. Who acts: abatwa, one. 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 213

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The abatwa, gorged with meat, then lay down to sleep, all except the one who advised that Guluwe should not be spared.

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**Who acts:** abatwa, one · **What happens:** gorge, lay down, sleep, advise, not spare · **To what, where:** abatwa, Guluwe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (abatwa, one), 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:pg71335:26:213
# text = The abatwa, gorged with meat, then lay down to sleep, all except the one who advised that Guluwe should not be spared.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	abatwa	abatwa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	gorged	gorge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
15	except	except	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	Guluwe	Guluwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gorge** | participle |  | the abatwa *not said here* |  |  |  | with meat | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay down** | infinitive | the abatwa |  |  |  | then | the one *parataxis*; down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the abatwa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **spare** | should · passive |  | Guluwe |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |

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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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