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title: Waba kuka ngomcepe, waza watshona. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Waba kuka ngomcepe, waza watshona. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 11

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Waba kuka ngomcepe, waza watshona.

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**To what, where:** Waba kuka ngomcepe

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. 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:pg71335:29:11
# text = Waba kuka ngomcepe, waza watshona.
1	Waba	Waba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	kuka	kuka	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	ngomcepe	ngomcepe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	waza	waza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	watshona	watshona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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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