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title: Some time in 1875, a party of Kaffir girls went to bathe in a little… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time in 1875, a party of Kaffir girls went to bathe in a little stream not far from the place where I was then living. Who acts: party, I. 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 50

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Some time in 1875, a party of Kaffir girls went to bathe in a little stream not far from the place where I was then living.

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**Who acts:** party, I · **What happens:** go, bathe, live

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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 (party, I), 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:pg71335:29:50
# text = Some time in 1875, a party of Kaffir girls went to bathe in a little stream not far from the place where I was then living.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1875	1875	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | a party of Kaffir girls |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | a party of Kaffir girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in a little stream; far *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stream=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP 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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