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title: On the following morning at daylight the ox is killed, when a portio… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: On the following morning at daylight the ox is killed, when a portion of the meat is taken by the bride’s party, and the remainder is left for the people of the kraal. Who acts: party, people. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads., with its dependency tree
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 35

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On the following morning at daylight the ox is killed, when a portion of the meat is taken by the bride’s party, and the remainder is left for the people of the kraal.

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**Who acts:** party, people · **What happens:** follow, kill, take, leave · **To what, where:** ox, portion, remainder

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party, people), 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:pg71335:28:35
# text = On the following morning at daylight the ox is killed, when a portion of the meat is taken by the bride’s party, and the remainder is left for the people of the kraal.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	remainder	remainder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:agent	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	kraal	kraal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | present · passive |  | the ox |  |  | morning |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present · passive | the bride's party | a portion of the meat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive | the people of the kraal | the remainder |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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