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title: All the councillors send oxen to be slaughtered, that there may be p… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: All the councillors send oxen to be slaughtered, that there may be plenty for the guests to eat. Who acts: councillors. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 23

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All the councillors send oxen to be slaughtered, that there may be plenty for the guests to eat.

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**Who acts:** councillors · **What happens:** send, slaughter, be, eat · **To what, where:** oxen, plenty

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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 (councillors), 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:pg71335:30:23
# text = All the councillors send oxen to be slaughtered, that there may be plenty for the guests to eat.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | all councillors | oxen |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme |
| 2 | **slaughter** | to-infinitive · passive | all councillors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | plenty |  |  |  | for the guests | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | all councillors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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