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title: Pick, come off; Pick handle, break; Sods, go back to your places!” — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Pick, come off; Pick handle, break; Sods, go back to your places!” Who acts: you, Sods. 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 28

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Pick, come off; Pick handle, break; Sods, go back to your places!”

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**Who acts:** you, Sods · **What happens:** pick, come off, go back · **To what, where:** handle

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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 (you, Sods), 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:pg71335:3:28
# text = Pick, come off; Pick handle, break; Sods, go back to your places!”
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Sods	sod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come off** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** | infinitive |  | handle and break |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Patient |
| 4 | **go back** | infinitive | Sods |  |  |  |  | to your places *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |

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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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