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title: “Weeds of this garden, Weeds of this garden, Spring up, spring up; W… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Weeds of this garden, Weeds of this garden, Spring up, spring up; Work of this garden, Work of this garden, Disappear, disappear.” Who acts: Weeds. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 11

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“Weeds of this garden, Weeds of this garden, Spring up, spring up; Work of this garden, Work of this garden, Disappear, disappear.”

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**Who acts:** Weeds · **What happens:** spring up, disappear

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weeds), 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:pg71335:3:11
# text = “Weeds of this garden, Weeds of this garden, Spring up, spring up; Work of this garden, Work of this garden, Disappear, disappear.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Work	Work	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Work	Work	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Weeds of this garden and Weeds of this garden |  |  |  |  | Work of this garden and Work of this garden *parataxis* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spring up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Weeds of this garden and Weeds of this garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **disappear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **disappear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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