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title: The man called his neighbours, who came with sticks and beat Hili ti… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The man called his neighbours, who came with sticks and beat Hili till he was unable to move. Who acts: man, neighbours. 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 65

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The man called his neighbours, who came with sticks and beat Hili till he was unable to move.

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**Who acts:** man, neighbours · **What happens:** call, come, beat, be, move · **To what, where:** neighbours, Hili · **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 (man, neighbours), 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:pg71335:26:65
# text = The man called his neighbours, who came with sticks and beat Hili till he was unable to move.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	Hili	Hili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the man | man's neighbours |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past | man's neighbours |  |  |  |  | with sticks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | present | man's neighbours *not said here* | Hili |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hili=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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