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title: More cattle are slaughtered for the “indwe,” and then dancing is ren… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: More cattle are slaughtered for the “indwe,” and then dancing is renewed, after which the girl drinks milk for the first time since the day when she was concealed in the house. Who acts: dancing, girl. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Cus
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 28

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More cattle are slaughtered for the “indwe,” and then dancing is renewed, after which the girl drinks milk for the first time since the day when she was concealed in the house.

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**Who acts:** dancing, girl · **What happens:** slaughter, dance, renew, drink, conceal · **To what, where:** More cattle, milk, girl, house

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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 (dancing, girl), 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:pg71335:30:28
# text = More cattle are slaughtered for the “indwe,” and then dancing is renewed, after which the girl drinks milk for the first time since the day when she was concealed in the house.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	indwe	indwe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	renewed	renew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	since	since	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slaughter** | present · passive |  | More cattle |  |  |  | for the indwe | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **renew** | present · passive | dancing |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 4 | **drink** | present | the girl | milk |  |  | day; time | which *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 5 | **conceal** | past · passive |  | girl |  | the house |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in house=Location |

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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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