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title: Large skins containing milk are sent from different kraals to the pl… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Large skins containing milk are sent from different kraals to the place where the ntonjane is held. Who acts: Large skins. 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 29

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Large skins containing milk are sent from different kraals to the place where the ntonjane is held.

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**Who acts:** Large skins · **What happens:** contain, send, hold · **To what, where:** milk, Large skins, different kraals, ntonjane

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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 (Large skins), 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:pg71335:30:29
# text = Large skins containing milk are sent from different kraals to the place where the ntonjane is held.
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kraals	kraal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ntonjane	ntonjane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | gerund | Large skins *not said here* | milk |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot milk=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | present · passive |  | Large skins |  | different kraals |  | to the place | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from kraal=Initial\_Location to place=Destination |
| 3 | **hold** | present · passive |  | the ntonjane |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP 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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