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title: They march towards the kraal where the dancing took place, the girl’… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: They march towards the kraal where the dancing took place, the girl’s mother, the jaka, or party of young women, the girl’s father, and his councillors, forming a procession. Who acts: house, dancing. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Cust
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 27

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They march towards the kraal where the dancing took place, the girl’s mother, the jaka, or party of young women, the girl’s father, and his councillors, forming a procession.

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**Who acts:** house, dancing · **What happens:** march, take, form · **To what, where:** kraal, place, procession

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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 (house, dancing), 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:pg71335:30:27
# text = They march towards the kraal where the dancing took place, the girl’s mother, the jaka, or party of young women, the girl’s father, and his councillors, forming a procession.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	march	march	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kraal	kraal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	jaka	jaka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | present | house |  |  | the kraal |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards kraal=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past | the dancing | place and the girl's mother |  |  |  | dancing's councillors *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument place=Theme jaka=Destination |
| 3 | **form** | gerund | the dancing *not said here* | a procession |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location procession=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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