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title: Pick, break into small pieces; Sods, return to your places.” — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Pick, break into small pieces; Sods, return to your places.” Who acts: you. 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 38

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Pick, break into small pieces; Sods, return to your places.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** pick, break, return · **To what, where:** Sods, small pieces

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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), 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:pg71335:3:38
# text = Pick, break into small pieces; Sods, return to your places.”
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
8	Sods	sod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	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* | Sods |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sod=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into small pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your places *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «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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