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title: That one watched a while longer, but at length he too was overcome b… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: That one watched a while longer, but at length he too was overcome by drowsiness. Who acts: one, drowsiness. 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 214

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That one watched a while longer, but at length he too was overcome by drowsiness.

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**Who acts:** one, drowsiness · **What happens:** watch, overcome · **To what, where:** Guluwe, length

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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 (one, drowsiness), 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:pg71335:26:214
# text = That one watched a while longer, but at length he too was overcome by drowsiness.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | that one |  |  |  | while | long *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **overcome** | past · passive | drowsiness | Guluwe |  | length |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |

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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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