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title: Wenziwe ngabomu Sihamba Ngenyanga, Ngabantu abantloni. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Wenziwe ngabomu Sihamba Ngenyanga, Ngabantu abantloni. 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 5

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Wenziwe ngabomu Sihamba Ngenyanga, Ngabantu abantloni.

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**To what, where:** Wenziwe

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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:pg71335:29:5
# text = Wenziwe ngabomu Sihamba Ngenyanga, Ngabantu abantloni.
1	Wenziwe	Wenziwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	ngabomu	ngabomu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	Sihamba	Sihamba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Ngenyanga	Ngenyanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Ngabantu	Ngabantu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	abantloni	abantloni	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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