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title: Thus, a woman who sang the song of Tangalimlibo for me used the word… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, a woman who sang the song of Tangalimlibo for me used the word angoca instead of amanzi for water, because this last contained the syllable nzi, which she would not on any account pronounce. Who acts: woman, Tangalimlibo. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Ta
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 44

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Thus, a woman who sang the song of Tangalimlibo for me used the word angoca instead of amanzi for water, because this last contained the syllable nzi, which she would not on any account pronounce.

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**Who acts:** woman, Tangalimlibo · **What happens:** sing, use, contain, not pronounce · **To what, where:** song, word angoca, syllable nzi, account

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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: who acts (woman, Tangalimlibo), 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:pg71335:29:44
# text = Thus, a woman who sang the song of Tangalimlibo for me used the word angoca instead of amanzi for water, because this last contained the syllable nzi, which she would not on any account pronounce.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	angoca	angoca	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	amanzi	amanzi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
26	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	nzi	nzi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
38	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | a woman | the song of Tangalimlibo |  |  |  | for me | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Theme for i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **use** | past | a woman | the word angoca |  |  |  | instead amanzi for water; last  this *obl*; thus *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angoca=Patient |
| 3 | **contain** | past |  | the syllable nzi |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nzi=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **pronounce** | would | woman | the syllable nzi |  | any account |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** |  | Tangalimlibo |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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