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title: The men then instruct the women to dress the girls for the dance, an… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The men then instruct the women to dress the girls for the dance, and when this is done they are ranged in rows in front of the cattle kraal. Who acts: men. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., with its dependency tree an
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 12

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The men then instruct the women to dress the girls for the dance, and when this is done they are ranged in rows in front of the cattle kraal.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** instruct, dress, do, range · **To what, where:** women, girls, this, men, rows

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg71335:30:12
# text = The men then instruct the women to dress the girls for the dance, and when this is done they are ranged in rows in front of the cattle kraal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	instruct	instruct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	kraal	kraal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present | the men |  | the women |  | then |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient |
| 2 | **dress** | to-infinitive | the men *not said here* | the girls |  |  |  | for the dance | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **range** | present · passive |  | men *= man* |  | rows |  | in front of the cattle kraal | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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