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title: She again put it in order on that day, and put some sticks in the gr… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: She again put it in order on that day, and put some sticks in the ground to mark the place. Who acts: woman. 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 14

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She again put it in order on that day, and put some sticks in the ground to mark the place.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** put, mark · **To what, where:** bird, order, sticks, ground, place

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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 (woman), 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:pg71335:3:14
# text = She again put it in order on that day, and put some sticks in the ground to mark the place.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | woman | bird |  | order | again; day |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in order=Destination |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | some sticks |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in ground=Destination |
| 3 | **mark** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Destination |

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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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