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title: The nodiwu, when whirled round gives forth a noise that can be heard… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The nodiwu, when whirled round gives forth a noise that can be heard at a considerable distance. Who acts: nodiwu. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 64

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The nodiwu, when whirled round gives forth a noise that can be heard at a considerable distance.

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**Who acts:** nodiwu · **What happens:** whirl, give, hear · **To what, where:** round, noise

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nodiwu), 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:pg71335:32:64
# text = The nodiwu, when whirled round gives forth a noise that can be heard at a considerable distance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nodiwu	nodiwu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whirl** | participle |  | round |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent round=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | the nodiwu | a noise |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | can · passive |  | a noise |  |  |  | at a considerable distance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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