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title: The animals were driven into the water while the man stood on the ba… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The animals were driven into the water while the man stood on the bank imploring the spirit to take the choicest of them and restore his daughter. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 57

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The animals were driven into the water while the man stood on the bank imploring the spirit to take the choicest of them and restore his daughter.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** drive, stand, implore, take, restore · **To what, where:** animals, water, bank, spirit, choicest, daughter

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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 (man), 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:pg71335:29:57
# text = The animals were driven into the water while the man stood on the bank imploring the spirit to take the choicest of them and restore his daughter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	imploring	implore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · passive |  | the animals |  | the water |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the man |  |  | the bank |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 3 | **implore** | gerund | the man *not said here* | the spirit |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | the choicest of men |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme |
| 5 | **restore** | infinitive | the man *not said here* | father's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=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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