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title: The crocodile had many cattle and (much) millet. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The crocodile had many cattle and (much) millet. Who acts: crocodile. 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 clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 137

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The crocodile had many cattle and (much) millet.

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**Who acts:** crocodile · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** many cattle

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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 (crocodile), 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:pg71335:3:137
# text = The crocodile had many cattle and (much) millet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the crocodile | many cattle and millet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient |

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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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