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title: Crocodile then gave them (the parents) three baskets of corn, and to… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Crocodile then gave them (the parents) three baskets of corn, and told them to go and build on the mountains. 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 163

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Crocodile then gave them (the parents) three baskets of corn, and told them to go and build on the mountains.

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**Who acts:** Crocodile · **What happens:** give, tell, go, build · **To what, where:** three baskets, parents, children, mountains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg71335:3:163
# text = Crocodile then gave them (the parents) three baskets of corn, and told them to go and build on the mountains.
1	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Crocodile | three baskets of corn | the parents |  | then | children *= child* *iobj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Crocodile *not said here* |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Crocodile *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **build** | infinitive | Crocodile *not said here* |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on mountain=Source |

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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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